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Corresponding author: Oleg Artaev (artaev@gmail.com)
Academic editor: Rupert Collins
Received: 18 Oct 2021 | Accepted: 26 Nov 2021 | Published: 06 Dec 2021
© 2021 Oleg Artaev, Andrey Pashkov, Dmitriy Vekhov, Maksim Saprykin, Maksim Shapovalov, Marina Levina, Boris Levin
This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Citation:
Artaev O, Pashkov A, Vekhov D, Saprykin M, Shapovalov M, Levina M, Levin B (2021) Fish occurrence in the Kuban River Basin (Russia). Biodiversity Data Journal 9: e76701. https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.9.e76701
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This publication describes a dataset containing information on 1328 occurrences of fishes in the Kuban River Basin, the longest river of Northern Caucasus and representing its own freshwater ecoregion (428 Kuban Ecoregion). All observations have precise geo-referencing with the names of water bodies (rivers, lakes etc.). The dataset is based on both literature data (509 occurrences) and our own sampling (814 occurrences). Observations were carried out between 1889 and 2020.
The majority (> 61%) of occurrences in the presented data are published for the first time. This extended dataset contributes significantly to fish fauna survey in the Kuban River ecoregion.
fish fauna, database, Kuban River, Sea of Azov, Caucasus
Ichthyofauna of the Kuban River system is comprised of three groups: the species also inhabiting other European rivers, the species inhabiting brackish waters of the Azov Sea and migrated to the Kuban, as well as by the endemic species found only in the Kuban Basin. The fish fauna of the Kuban River Basin is one of the most distinct amongst river basins of European Russia. In total, 94 fish species have been recorded in the Kuban Basin (
The Middle Kuban River is considered an important place for the conservation of freshwater fishes in the Caucasus (
The dataset contains information on 1328 occurrence records (one species in a definite place at a definite time) of 63 taxa, 58 of which were identified at species level, while six taxa were identified at generic level. The occurrences were recorded between 1889 and 2020. The study area is ~ 57900 km2.
Occurrences retrieved from literature are based mainly on data from the fish elevator of the Krasnodar Reservoir (
Each observation contains fundamental information, such as locality (coordinates), date, name of water body, name of observer and name of identifier. Geographical latitude/longitude coordinates for the majority of localities were obtained using hand-held GPS devices, while coordinates for localities extracted from literature and those missing coordinates were determined using the Google Maps service. Species were identified, based on morphological characters (
First, we analysed published data on fish records. Second, we added our data on fish occurrences.
All occurrences were recorded within the Kuban River Basin which drains the North-western Caucasus and discharges into the Azov Sea and within the Large Stavropol' irrigation canal draining the the eastern part of the Kuban Basin and parts of the Kuma and Terek Rivers (both belong to Caspian Sea drainage – Fig.
Map of sampling sites in the Kuban River Basin. Map was created in ArcGIS 10.8 software (www.esri.com). Author's data are designated by the red circles, while literature data are designated by yellow circles.
43.23 and 45.76 Latitude; 36.77 and 42.33 Longitude.
The dataset contains information on 63 taxa, of which 57 were identified at the species level and six at the genus level (Table
Taxa | Number of occurrences |
Acipenseridae | |
Acipenser gueldenstaedtii Brandt & Ratzeburg, 1833 | 1 |
Acipenser nudiventris Lovetsky, 1828 | 1 |
Acipenser ruthenus Linnaeus, 1758 | 21 |
Acipenser stellatus Pallas, 1771 | 6 |
Huso huso (Linnaeus, 1758) | 1 |
Cichlidae | |
Oreochromis aureus (Steindachner, 1864) | 4 |
Rocio octofasciata (Regan, 1903) | 3 |
Clupeidae | |
Alosa immaculata Bennett, 1835 | 8 |
Alosa maeotica (Grimm, 1901) | 7 |
Alosa tanaica (Grimm, 1901) | 17 |
Cobitidae | |
Sabanejewia kubanica Vasil'eva & Vasil'ev, 1988 | 30 |
Cyprinidae | |
Abramis brama (Linnaeus, 1758) | 53 |
Alburnoides kubanicus Banarescu, 1964 | 85 |
Alburnus alburnus (Linnaeus, 1758) | 73 |
Alburnus leobergi Freyhof & Kottelat, 2007 | 37 |
Barbus Daudin, 1805 | 16 |
Barbus kubanicus Berg, 1912 | 47 |
Blicca bjoerkna (Linnaeus, 1758) | 39 |
Carassius auratus (Linnaeus, 1758) | 20 |
Carassius Jarocki, 1822 | 31 |
Chondrostoma kubanicum Berg, 1914 | 12 |
Ctenopharyngodon idella (Valenciennes, 1844) | 18 |
Cyprinus carpio Linnaeus, 1758 | 33 |
Gobio caucasicus Kamensky, 1901 | 21 |
Gobio Cuvier, 1816 | 67 |
Gobio holurus Fowler, 1976 | 1 |
Gobio kubanicus Vasil'eva, 2004 | 1 |
Leucaspius delineatus (Heckel, 1843) | 3 |
Leuciscus aspius (Linnaeus, 1758) | 32 |
Leuciscus idus (Linnaeus, 1758) | 1 |
Pelecus cultratus (Linnaeus, 1758) | 35 |
Petroleuciscus aphipsi (Aleksandrov, 1927) | 45 |
Petroleuciscus borysthenicus (Kessler, 1859) | 1 |
Phoxinus Rafinesque, 1820 | 17 |
Pseudorasbora parva (Temminck & Schlegel, 1846) | 7 |
Rhodeus amarus (Bloch, 1782) | 17 |
Romanogobio parvus Naseka & Freyhof, 2004 | 1 |
Romanogobio pentatrichus Naseka & Bogutskaya, 1998 | 2 |
Rutilus lacustris (Pallas, 1814) | 87 |
Scardinius erythrophthalmus (Linnaeus, 1758) | 13 |
Squalius cephalus (Linnaeus, 1758) | 71 |
Vimba vimba (Linnaeus, 1758) | 29 |
Esocidae | |
Esox lucius Linnaeus, 1758 | 17 |
Gasterosteidae | |
Pungitius platygaster (Kessler, 1859) | 3 |
Gobiidae | |
Knipowitschia Iljin, 1927 | 1 |
Neogobius fluviatilis (Pallas, 1814) | 31 |
Pomatoschistus Gill, 1863 | 2 |
Ponticola cf. constructor (Nordmann, 1840) | 9 |
Proterorhinus semipellucidus (Kessler, 1877) | 4 |
Proterorhinus Smitt, 1900 | 13 |
Ictaluridae | |
Ictalurus punctatus (Rafinesque, 1818) | 15 |
Mugilidae | |
Planiliza haematocheila (Temminck & Schlegel, 1845) | 2 |
Nemacheilidae | |
Barbatula barbatula (Linnaeus, 1758) | 28 |
Percidae | |
Gymnocephalus cernua (Linnaeus, 1758) | 21 |
Perca fluviatilis Linnaeus, 1758 | 48 |
Sander lucioperca (Linnaeus, 1758) | 57 |
Sander volgensis (Gmelin, 1789) | 5 |
Petromyzontidae | |
Eudontomyzon cf. mariae (Berg, 1931) | 1 |
Poeciliidae | |
Gambusia holbrooki Girard, 1859 | 6 |
Salmonidae | |
Salmo labrax Pallas, 1814 | 4 |
Serrasalmidae | |
Piaractus brachypomus (Cuvier, 1818) | 1 |
Siluridae | |
Silurus glanis Linnaeus, 1758 | 31 |
Syngnathidae | |
Syngnathus abaster Risso, 1827 | 15 |
The connection of the Kuban system with the Kuma and Terek riverine systems via the Large Stavropol' irrigation canal, as well as with the Manych-Don system via the Nevinnomysk irrigation canal, may facilitate exchange of fish fauna as exemplified by B. kubanicus occurrences in the Manych system (
Data can be divided into three periods: i) 1889-1911 - data on the type localities of endemic species of the Kuban Basin; ii) 1974-2001 - data on the occurrences solely from literature sources; and iii) 2003-2020 - author's data and further literature data.
Dataset is a compilation of data as a contemporary faunistic research (2003-2020) and literature data (1974-1987) with indication of locality.
Column label | Column description |
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occurrenceID | The Globally Unique Identifier number for the recored. |
basisOfRecord | The specific nature of the data record: HumanObservation. |
eventDate | date format as YYYY-MM-DD. |
scientificName | The full scientific name including the genus name and the lowest level of taxonomic rank with the authority. |
kingdom | The full scientific name of the kingdom in which the taxon is classified. |
phylum | The full scientific name of the phylum or division in which the taxon is classified. |
class | The full scientific name of the class in which the taxon is classified. |
order | The full scientific name of the order in which the taxon is classified. |
family | The full scientific name of the family in which the taxon is classified. |
decimalLatitude | The geographic latitude of location in decimal degrees. |
decimalLongitude | The geographic longitude of location in decimal degrees. |
Country | The name of the country (Russia). |
countryCode | The standard code for the country in which the Location occurs. |
individualCount | The number of individuals represented present at the time of the Occurrence. |
year | Year of the event was recorded. |
month | The month of the event was recorded. |
day | The integer day of the month on which the Event occurred. |
recordedBy | A person or group responsible for recording the original Occurrence. |
identifiedBy | A list of names of people, who assigned the Taxon to the subject. |
locality | The specific description of the place. |
associatedReferences | Bibliographic reference of literature associated with the Occurrence. |
coordinatePrecision | A decimal representation of the precision of the coordinates given in the decimalLatitude and decimalLongitude. |
catalogNumber | An identifier (unique) for the record within the dataset or collection (only for type specimens). |
occurrenceRemarks | Comments or notes about the Occurrence - what types of specimens were caught in this place. |
identificationRemarks | Comments or notes about the Identification - what Latin name was given when describing a species from this locality. |
institutionCode | The name (or acronym) in use by the institution having custody of the object(s) or information referred to in the record. |
geodeticDatum | The ellipsoid, geodetic datum or spatial reference system (SRS) upon which the geographic coordinates given in decimalLatitude and decimalLongitude are based. |
identificationQualifier | A brief phrase or a standard term ("cf.", "aff.") to express the determiner's doubts about the Identification. |
taxonRank | The taxonomic rank of the most specific name in the scientificName. |
taxonRemarks | Comments or notes about the taxon or name. |
Oleg Artaev - investigation, dataset preparation, original draft preparation; Andrey Pashkov - investigation, Dmitriy Vekhov - investigation; Maksim Saprykin - investigation; Maksim Shapovalov - investigation; Marina Levina - investigation; Boris Levin - investigation, original draft preparation, editing.