Ихтиофауна прибрежной зоны Севастополя (Чёрное море)

As a result of original many years’ standing monitoring studies and analysis of the literature data it has been stated that in the Sevastopol water area, including six the most large bays and open coastal zone between the capes Tolstiy and Aya 120 fish species from 81 genera belonging to 49 families have been registered in the last 30 years. Totally the authors marked 108 species, 22 of them were met for the first time. We determined, that together with high species diversity ichthyofauna had a complex ecological structure due to the presence of representatives of all the Black sea fish ecological groups. Six of ichthyocenes, affiliated to corresponding biotopes – rocky and stony lanscapes, soft grounds, thickets of marine grasses, surf zone and ecotone estuarine one have been isolated in the Sevastopol water area. Diversity of the separate bays ichthyofauna is under consideration.