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Analysis of the composition and quantitative distribution of foraminifers in bathyal sediments collected at 14 stations in the Deryugin Basin and at 11 stations in other regions of the Sea of Okhotsk, Sea of Japan, and North Pacific demonstrated specific foraminifer complex in the basin at depths from 1650 to 1800 m associated with cold barite/methane seeps. Oligomixed biocenosis with prevailing agglutinated foraminifers and Saccorhiza ramosa as the dominant was shown to develop in these zones.
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Original Russian Text © T.A. Khusid, M.M. Domanov, A.M. Svininnikov, 2006, published in Izvestiya Akademii Nauk, Seriya Biologicheskaya, 2006, No. 2, pp. 217–224.
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Khusid, T.A., Domanov, M.M. & Svininnikov, A.M. Species composition and distribution of foraminifers in the Deryugin Basin (Sea of Okhotsk). Biol Bull Russ Acad Sci 33, 172–178 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1062359006020129
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