Dear researchers,
I am doing my research on freshwater red algae, and i have collected many strains from India using techniques learned from Prof. B. B. Chaugule and Dr. Uma rani, but still i could find the representative of following Genus
1. Cyanidium (will it only occure in Hot water spring)
2. Galderia
3. Chroodactylon
4. Kyliniella
5. Bangia
6. Balbiniana [(How this epiphyte look like/ how to differentiate it from Audoinella) even though i observed many Batrachospermaceae members i never found this.]
7. Rhododraparnaldia
8. Ballia
9. Bostrychia
10. Nemalionopsis
11. Thorea
12. Psilosiphon
13. Polysiphonia
kindly give me some insight on these genus so that it will help me during my following field visits.
thanks in advance.
This one location should satisfy all your needs http://www.algaebase.org/
Bostrychia is not fresh water red algae, it is an estuarine form occurs in estuarine regions especially in mangrove habitats only. Similarly polysiphonia also.
For collection of above samples one can get from mangrove habitats, remaining may be avaliable in the fresh water lakes
Thank you mohan sir . I will visit such locations during my upcoming field trips..
Bostrychia simpliciuscula has been reported from Arakawa fall in Ishigaki Island, Japan. And B. flagellifera also reported from freshwater pond in Japan.
Polysiphonia also has been reported from true freshwater habitats by Stamarch (1977) Ott & Sommerfeld (1982), Sheath (1984) & Bourrelly (1985).
And these have included in monograph of freshwater red algae of world by Kumano (2002) as freshwater algae..
Please comment on this..
Thank you for the information but i studied the estuarine algae in the estuaries of east coast of India, I have noticed that Bostrychia tenella which able to grow in 5 ppt salinity for some time and Polysiphonia is basically marine form grows in estuarine habitats. In general when a talk about estuarine algae, immediately remembering sps are Bostrychia, Caloglossa, Catenella and polysiphonia.
I don't want comment on literature. but i would like to tell one thing, similarly I worked on mangroves. Published some papers on mangroves and estuarien algae, recently I have an opportunity to evaluate the thesis on mangroves. In the mangroves list author included some of the terrestrial flora such as Calotropis, Vitex and so on. I have seen some research publications which they included the terrestrial plants as mangroves.
Finally we have to accept the literature, thank you
Dear Rabbul,
I have read papers on Lemanea from north east if you have some other red reported from north east means kindly let me know it will be more helpful to me.
Thanks in advance...
Dear Dr. Elaya,
I got three of them Batrachospermum, Sirodotia, Audoinella.
I think the sixth genus should be Balbiania instead of Balbiniana.
Balbiania shows cylindrical cells 3-5 µm and 30-90 µm long with many chloroplasts per cell (Sheath and Sherwood 2011).
Audoinella typicallyconsists of small, uniseriate branched filaments that contain many plastids/cell. Apparently can modify pigments sufficiently to appear either red or green.Thallus may grow up to 15 mm high, and composed of more than 50 cells, reddish; basal part consisting of an irregular prostrate system of densely aggregated filaments.
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