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Fifty-two species and intraspecific taxa of testate amoebae have been detected in 24 different habitats in the Belaya River basin (Northwestern Caucasus). Four types of communities are distinguished which differ in the composition of the complex of dominating species: freshwater species from bottom sediments in water bodies and water courses, soil-dwelling species from inundated parts of floodplains, a mixture of soildwelling and freshwater species in different littoral biotopes, and eurybiontic species in moss hummocks along the banks.
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Malysheva, E.A., Mazei, N.G., Shapovalov, M.I. et al. Freshwater testate amoebae in the Belaya River basin (Northwestern Caucasus). Inland Water Biol 10, 92–96 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1995082917010126
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