Plant Ecology Laboratory, Department of Botany, Gauhati University, Guwahati-781014, Assam, India
*email: ppbaruah@gauhati.ac.in
Online published on 5 October, 2021.
Explorations made to historic Rudrasagar Ramsar Site of Tripura (India) during 2018–2019 revealed one hundred thirty eight phytoplankton species belonging to Chlorophyta (98) and Euglenophyta (40) for the first time from the water body. Among these, a total of one hundred and six species were reported for the first time from the North East India and, one hundred and twenty seven number of species from the state of Tripura respectively. Cosmarium with 23 species was the most dominant genus within the Cholorophycean members followed by Scenedesmus (22) and Trachelomonas with 18 species was the dominant genus amongst the Euglenophycean members.
Cholorophyta, Euglenophyta, Phytoplankton, Rudrasagar Ramsar Site, Systematic enumeration
