“…The species detected in this study add more information to the findings of previous reports on zooplankton (Asami et al, 2007; Hikichi et al, 2018; Hirai et al, 2015, 2017; Pinchuk & Paul, 2000), harmful algal species (Sildever et al, 2019; Stonik & Orlova, 2013), winter microalgal communities (Yan et al, 2022), and protists in general (Matsumoto et al, 2021). Using zooplankton as an example, similar to previous studies from the same sampling location, most of the OTUs were associated with copepods (especially calanoids), Polychaeta, and Hydrozoa (Hirai et al, 2015, 2017).…”