Smittia

Chertoprud, Mikhail V., Palatov, Dmitry M. & Dimante-Deimantovica, Inta, 2017, Macrobenthic communities in water bodies and streams of Svalbard, Norway, Journal of Natural History 51 (47 - 48), pp. 2809-2825 : 2821

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.1080/00222933.2017.1395092

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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03B30957-4665-FB3F-DBA3-FF7CC6BAFDE3

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scientific name

Smittia
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14. Smittia View in CoL . Animals were found in newly formed puddles with a clay bottom. Dominant species belongs to soil chironomid Smittia , in addition soil species P. brevinervis and M. gr. fuscipes were found.

Euryhaline macrobenthic communities

Specimens are associated with penetration of sea water into reservoirs. For instance, in shallow lagoon habitats, usually separated from the sea with a shaft of pebble deposits partially flooded at high tide. The salinity varies from 2 to 15 ppt. Two dominant types of communities were recorded:

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Chironomidae

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