Centre for Biotechnology, Institute of Science, Visva-Bharati, Shantiniketan, West Bengal-731235
*Corresponding author email: adhikarysp@visva-bharati.ac.in
Online published on 7 April, 2016.
Eighty six freshwater algal species were documented from different locations of Arunachal Pradesh. These include 8 Cyanophyta (Cyanoprokaryota/Cyanobacteria), 30 Chlorophyta, 8 Euglenophyta, 40 Heterokontophyta (39 Bacillariophyceae and 1 Xanthophyceae). Among all these taxa, 12 species were reported for the first time in India. Distributional pattern of these species in different altitudinal ranges of the region has been described.
Algae, Altitudinal gradient, Arunachal Pradesh, Freshwater, Systematic enumeration
