the purpose of this study was to investigate the distribution and biodiversity of diatoms during different seasons and their correlation with water quality parameters in helleh river estuary, bushehr, persian gulf. samples were taken in mid-season from summer 2011 to spring 2012 during a one-year period from different stations. results showed that diatoms mostly comprised of bacillariophyceae, ...

copepods are the main zooplankton assemblages in most tropical and semi-tropical estuaries. in this research, copepod population dynamics were investigated in helleh river estuary, persian gulf during four seasons beginning from summer 2011 to spring 2012.  samples were taken using plankton net with mesh size of 140 µm and vertical towing from 5 fixed-stations in mid-season. results showed that...

The purpose of this study was to investigate the distribution and biodiversity of diatoms during different seasons and their correlation with water quality parameters in Helleh River estuary, Bushehr, Persian Gulf. Samples were taken in mid-season from summer 2011 to spring 2012 during a one-year period from different stations. Results showed that diatoms mostly comprised of Bacillariophyceae, ...

this study was conducted to determine taxonomic and zoogeographic features of fishes from the kor and helleh river basins in southwestern iran. the specimens were collected from 2004 to 2007. twenty four species belonging to 20 genera, 9 families, and 6 orders from the kor river basin and 21 species belonging to 19 genera, 8 families, and 6 orders from helleh basin were identified. ichthyofauna...

The Mesopotamian spiny eel, Mastacembelus mastacembelus, an endemic freshwater fish restricted to the Euphrates and Tigris river drainages of Mesopotamian, its related taxa in Afrotropica South Asia present suitable elements for studies evolutionary history mastacembelids across these heterogeneous areas. To understand clarify geographic variation eel from Persian Gulf basin, we investigated mo...

in this study, the morphological and histological studies of male and female gonads in mudskipper, periophthalmus waltoni koumans, 1941 from helleh estuary (bushehr province, southwestern iran) were performed to determine its gonadal development stages and histo-morphological characteristics. sampling was done from april 2010 to march 2011 and a total of 81 individuals were collected by hand ne...

Copepods are the main zooplankton assemblages in most tropical and semi-tropical estuaries. In this research, copepod population dynamics were investigated in Helleh River estuary, Persian Gulf during four seasons beginning from summer 2011 to spring 2012.  Samples were taken using plankton net with mesh size of 140 µm and vertical towing from 5 fixed-stations in mid-season. Results showed that...