“…The Dreissena-Monodacna communities form species-rich communities in freshwater to oligohaline settings at the core of estuaries in all BSB PC regions and are locally dominated by either Monodacna or Dreissena species (Markovsky, 1953(Markovsky, , 1954a(Markovsky, , 1955Mordukhay-Boltovskoy, 1960). Adacna-Hypanis-Monodacna-dominated communities were common in the oligohaline-mesohaline zones in all BSB PC regions (Markovsky, 1953(Markovsky, , 1954a(Markovsky, , 1955Mordukhay-Boltovskoy, 1960;Shokhin et al, 2006;Zhadin, 1931). These communities were relatively species-poor, containing only Adacna Within the central-eastern parts of the Taganrog Bay today an impoverished version of the community exists (lacking Hypanis) that is often termed Monodacna community (Nekrasova, 1972;Stark, 1960;Vorobyev, 1949).…”