PHYTOPLANKTON OF THE COASTAL SHALLOW WATERS OF THE RUSSIAN CASPIAN
The taxonomic structure and the list of species of the phytoplankton community in the sea coastal shallow waters of the Russian sector of the Caspian Sea have been presented. High floristic diversity and domination of small cell forms are characteristic of the modern structure of the coastal shoal waters of the Dagestan part of the Caspian Sea. The auttaclimatizant of 1934, Pseudosolenia calcar-avis, has not been discovered in the plankton of the researched water area. The phytoplankton community is represented by 58 species of six groups: Cyanophyta, Bacillariaphyta, Dinophyta, Euglenophyta, Chlorophyta and the small flagellate. Bacillariaphyta are the basis of both the taxonomic diversity and the biomass. Cyanophita prevails in number.