Discovery of new species of dinoflagellates in the pelagial of the northeastern part of the Black Sea

In the waters of the northeastern part of the Black Sea, new species of dinoflagellates have been noted for this area: Oxyhysis oxytoxoides, Spatulodinium pseudonoctiluca, Scaphodinium mirabile, Actiniscus pentasterias. These species, previously indicated only for the waters of Bulgaria, Romania, Turkey, Georgia, Ukraine and Crimea, have been found in the pelagial of the northeastern part of the Black Sea in the last decade: in the area from Abkhazia to the Kerch Strait.