title: Benthic mollusk composition of some facies in the upper-infralittoral zone of the southern Black Sea, Turkey
abstract: The aim of the present study was to describe the mollusk syntaxon associated with Cystoseira barbata and Mytilus galloprovincialis facies, which are widely distributed along the coasts of the Sinop Peninsula, Turkey. Four stations were chosen for each facies at depths of 0.5-5 m, and a total of 32 seasonal samplings were performed with 4 replicate groups between February 2006 and November 2006. As a result of the qualitative and quantitative analyses, the C. barbata facies was shown to be repres
journal: TURKISH JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY