Open AccessOn some Diatoms from High Altitude Gokyo Lake-Iii, Sagarmatha National Park, Nepal
Author(s) -
Shiva Kumar,
Pradeep Kumar Mishra,
Kamal Madan
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
journal of natural history museum
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 0259-0964
DOI - 10.3126/jnhm.v26i0.14134
Subject(s) - national park , taxon , diatom , geography , altitude (triangle) , ecology , archaeology , botany , biology , mathematics , geometry
The present paper describes total 16 taxa of diatoms under 12 genera, belonging to 1 centric (Cyclotella antiqua W. Smith var. minor Suxena & Venkateswarlu) and 15 pennate species from Gokyo lake- III, Sagarmatha National Park, Nepal. Of these, 6 were the new records for the country. The morphological descriptions, taxonomic accounts and distribution are described systematically with photographs J. Nat. Hist. Mus. Vol. 26, 2012: 93-110