“…The species diversity of the benthic foraminifera in the study region was very low, which is also noted in the works, describing the western regions of the sea [Brodniewicz, 1965;Binczewska et al, 2017;Hermelin, 1987;Murray and Alve, 2011;Polovodova et al, 2009] (Figure 3). As was also observed in the studies of [Alve and Murray, 1999;Brodniewicz, 1965;Hermelin, 1987], agglutinated species are the most abundant in the assemblages. They were dominated by small sized individuals (less than 100 m) of a simple single-chamber ES6001 ponomarenko and krechik: benthic foraminifera distribution ES6001 structure, which belong to Psammosphaera, Pseudothurammina and Saccammina genera, and also Reophax species.…”