Occurrence, distribution and seasonal periodicity of some aquatic fungi of Sat-Tal (Nainital), India

Abstract

The occurrence of 23 species of aquatic fungi belonging to Blastocladiales, Saprolegniales, Lagenidiales and Peronosporales in three lakes and their surrounding cultivated and non-cultivated soils of Sat-Tal area have been studied. The species were found to be different in their habitat and temperature range.

Some new records of lower aquatic fungi from western Maharashtra, Maharashtra State, India.

“…In India, Butler (1907) first report occurrence on the phycomycetes. Later on a large number of investigators have reported different species of this group, Bhargava (1946), Dayal and Thakurji (1968), Khulbe (1977), Mer (1980), Chowdhry and Agarwal (1980), Manoharachary (1981Manoharachary ( ,1991, Mer and Khulbe (1984), Mishra and Dwivedi (1987), Prabhuji and Shrivastava (1978), Sati (1997), Prasad Dei et al, (2009) and Shinde and Pawar (2015) etc. A wide variety of aquatic fungi such as zoophagales, Saprolegniales and Peronosporales are found in fresh water.…”