Four New Records for the Freshwater Algae of Turkey

• Main Authors: Karolina Fucıkova, Memet Varol
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Fisheries Research Institute, Eğirdir 2015-08-01
• Series: Journal of Limnology and Freshwater Fisheries Research
• Subjects: -; freshwater algal flora; new records; tigris river; turkey; tatlısu algal flora; yeni kayıtlar; dicle nehri; türkiye
• Online Access: https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/pub/limnofish/issue/19384/205746

Despite the fact that planktonic algae are a critical component of freshwater ecosystems, our understanding of their diversity and species distributions is still rather poor. This study contributes new information to the knowledge of Turkish freshwater microflora. A total of 84 phytoplankton samples were collected from 7 sites in the Tigris River from February 2008 to January 2009. Four taxa representing new records for the freshwater algal flora of Turkey were identified from the river. They belong to the following phyla: 1 (Oscillatoria nitida)  to Cyanobacteria, 2 (Micractinium bornhemiense and Lagerheimia wratislaviensis) to Chlorophyta and 1 (Audouinella chalybaea) to Rhodophyta.