Occurrence of Two Algal Species in the Point of Convergence of the Damoder, Rupnarayan and Hooghly Rivers Near Gadiara, West Bengal, India
Sankar Narayan Sinha *
Department of Botany, University of Kalyani, West Bengal, India.
Sushree Ghosh
Department of Botany, University of Kalyani, West Bengal, India.
Nilu Halder
Department of Botany, Raja Pearymohan College, West Bengal, India.
Achintya Dey
Department of Botany, University of Kalyani, West Bengal, India.
Sarif Mahammad
Department of Botany, University of Kalyani, West Bengal, India.
Astom Mondal
Department of Botany, University of Kalyani, West Bengal, India.
*Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Abstract
This is the part of the taxonomic study of microflora of rivers Damoder, Rupnarayan and Hooghly in the Howrah district of West Bengal. The present paper deals with two genera(Ulva clathrata and Chlorella vulgaris ) of algae among which one genus ( Ulva clathrata )was first time isolated and reported from this confluence region of these three rivers mentioned above.
Keywords: Algal species, convergence, damoder, rupnarayan, microflora