| INTRODUCTION Though both are parts of the Mediterranean basin, the eastern Mediterranean and the Black Sea form distinct units from both the hydrographic and the biological points of view. The Levantine basin — delimited by the Anatolian peninsula, the Syrio-Israelian shores and the Egyptian littoral — is the main basin of the eastern Mediterranean. We studied the Harpacticoida along the Israel coasts. Also we used the data of Brian (1927, 1928) from the Dodecanese, of Gurney (1927) from the Suez Canal zone, and of Steuer (1948) from Alexandria, in order to obtain a comprehensive survey of the levantine Harpacticoida. In the Black Sea we studied the Harpacticoida of the Rumanian shores and a few samples from the Bulgarian shores and from the pre-bosphoric... |
