New Data on Morphological Features of the Branchial Apparatus of Sparsely Rakered and Medium Rakered Morphs of Whitefish Сoregonus lavaretus (L.) from the Largest Subarctic Lake

Zubova, E. M.; Kashulin, N. A.; Terentjev, Petr; Валькова, Светлана Александровна; Cherepanov, A. A.; Postnova, S.V.

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“…In 2020, we observed two mr whitefish individuals in Lake Zayachye (basin of the Bolshaya Imandra reach) with 29 and 31 rakers. The combination of such factors in the northern reach of Lake Imandra (in Bolshaya Imandra), as the presence of a pronounced pelagic zone, a high nutrient level, and the highest biomass of zooplankton for the reservoir (Zubova et al 2018), which plays an important role in the nutrition of the mr whitefish (Reshetnikov 1980; Kahilainen et al 2004Kahilainen et al , 2006Kahilainen et al , 2014Siwertsson et al 2010) also creates the most favorable conditions for the habitat of the mr whitefish and determines its confinement to this area.…”

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“…In general, the growth rate of the mr whitefish in Lake Imandra (the Niva River basin) did not differ significantly from the growth rate of the sr whitefish, while both large and small mr whitefish in Lake Kuetsyarvi grew more slowly than the large and small sr one. According Zubova et al (2016aZubova et al ( , 2018, the linear-growth rate in whitefish in the water bodies of the Murmansk region (especially in the first years of life) is closely related to the quantitative indicators of zooplankton and benthic organisms. Large sr whitefish begin to mature at the age of 2+ to 4+ years.…”

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“…Lake Imandra is the largest water body in the Murmansk region and is exposed to a variety of anthropogenic effects (Moiseenko et al 2002). It consists of three independent reaches -Bolshaya, Yokostrovskaya and Babinskaya Imandra -connected by narrow straits and differing in hydrology and environmental factors controlling water quality (Moiseenko and Yakovlev 1990;Moiseenko et al 2002;Zubova et al 2016aZubova et al , 2018. There is substantial content of total phosphorus and nitrogen in the Bolshaya and Yokostrovskaya Imandra reaches (Table 1).…”

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European whitefish (Coregonus lavaretus) is a highly polymorphic species, but the wider scale diversity and distribution of sympatric morphs in subarctic lakes of northwestern Russia has not been recently studied and analyzed. The aim of the present study was to investigate diversity and distribution of whitefish morphs in different sized lakes and watercourses of Murmansk region. Our study of the water bodies in four major river basins of Murmansk region revealed the presence of two whitefish morphs: sparsely rakered (sr) and medium rakered (mr). The mr morph is less common and observed only alongside the sr whitefish. In general, in sr whitefish the number of gill rakers ranges between 15 and 31, and in mr whitefish between 27 and 44. Among whitefishes with 27 to 31 gill rakers, both sr and mr morphs were observed and distinguishable by the shape of the rakers. In the studied sr whitefish populations, relatively long and short rakered whitefish morphs were found. In Lake Kuetsyarvi (Pasvik River basin), the sr and mr whitefish formed additional slow-and fast-growing ecological morphs. The four whitefish morphs in Lake Kuetsyarvi specialize to different ecological niches correlating with morphological and behavioral differences. The observed diversity and distribution of whitefish in the Murmansk region requires genetic studies of the population to assess the origins of divergence.

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“…Murmansk Region is one of the largest developed and urbanised parts of the Northern-European Russia. Due to extensive pollution of the water bodies in the second half of the 20 th century, the focus of researchers has been on fishes as the bioindicators ( Reshetnikov 1968 , Reshetnikov 1980 , Moiseenko 1983 , Moiseenko 1991 , Moiseenko 1996 , Moiseenko 1997 , Moiseenko 2000 , Moiseenko 2002 , Moiseenko and Yakovlev 1990 , Nost et al 1991 , Nost et al 1997 , Lukin and Kashulin 1992 , Lukin 1998 , Moiseenko et al 1994 , Sharova and Lukin 2000 , Kashulin et al 1999 , Kashulin et al 2005 , Kashulin et al 2007 , Kashulin et al 2009 , Moiseenko and Lukin 1999 , Moiseenko et al 2002 , Kashulin 2004 , Terentyev 2005 , Lukin et al 2006 , Reshetnikov et al 2011 , Reshetnikov et al 2020 , Koroleva et al 2012 , Terentyev and Kashulin 2012 , Zubova 2015 , Zubova et al 2015 , Zubova et al 2016 , Zubova et al 2018 , Zubova et al 2020a , Zubova et al 2020b , Zubova et al 2020c , Terentyev et al 2017 , Terentyev et al 2019 , Denisov et al 2020 ). Fishes are an essential part of any aquatic ecosystem and as members of trophic nets, they also have a large economic value as a food source for humans.…”

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Occurrence of fish species in the inland water of Murmansk Region (Russia): research in 1972-2021

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Knowledge about the distribution of organisms on Earth is important backbone of biological sciences and especially for deeper understanding of biogeography. However, much of the existing distributional data are scattered throughout a multitude of sources (including in different languages), such as taxonomic publications, checklists and natural history collections and often, bringing them together is difficult. Development of the digital storage facilities may prevent loss of important data (Ruchin et al. 2020). Project GBIF is a good example of a successful data storage facility, which allows investigators to publish biodiversity data in one safe place in one uniform format. Our dataset describes the degree of the investigation of the fish fauna of the inland water of the Murmansk Region. Murmansk Region is a Euro-Arctic Region with a heterogeneous landscape, which determines diversity of the habitats for the fish occurrence. Our dataset contains valid information about distribution of the fish species. This dataset was built upon information obtained by the members of a Laboratory of the aquatic ecosystems of the Institute of North Industrial Ecology Problems of Kola Science Center of the Russian Academy of Science (INEP KSC RAS). The dataset includes 18,509 records about 16 fish species from 14 genera (eight families) collected from 1972 to 2021. A total of 67 water bodies from 15 different basins (rivers from basins of the White and Barents Seas) was screened in order to characterise ichthyocenoses. The main purpose of publishing a database is to make our data available in the global biodiversity system to a wide range of users. The data can be used by researchers, as well as helping the authorities to manage their territory more efficiently. All occurrences are published in GBIF for the first time. We would like to make this data available to everyone by adding it in the global biodiversity database (GBIF).

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