Twenty- five new records of algae in eight artificial fish ponds in Erbil

Abstract

This study was carried out from March to October 2018 in eight artificial fish ponds within Erbil province Kurdistan region of Iraq which is the first work in such ponds. A total of 116 algal species belong to 58 genera, 31 families, 19 orders, 9 class and 8 divisions were identified. The dominant division was Chlorophyta with 58 species (50%), followed by Cyanophyta with 31 species (26.72%), Euglenophyta with 19 species (16.37%), Chrysophyta with 4 species with (3.45%) and each of Charophyta, Pyrrophyta, Rhodophyta and Cryptophyta was with one species (0.58%). The dominant species were Euglena, Cosmarium, and Oscillatoria. Among identified taxa, 25 species were new records to Iraqi algal flora.

Keywords

• Algae; new records; Ponds; Erbil; Iraq