A Comprehensive Report On The Occurrence Of Nine Species Of Gloeocapsa – A Coccoidal Cyanobacteria From Burdwan District Of West Bengal, India

Abstract

Gloeocapsa is a Coccoidal Cyanobacteria (Desikachary 1959) with thick mucilaginous sheath. The heath sometime forms yellowish hue and thus this organism termed as glow cap. Thus study on the said group was conducted at the East (Purba) & West (Paschim) Burdwan district in West Bengal. Large portion of the area is agriculture land and due to the ability of Gloeocapsa to fix calcium and nitrogen it was perfect organism to perform the investigation on occurrence as that may illuminate the chemical composition of the soil. During the investigation total nine species were obtained under the said genus out of which one species – G. chroococcoides found to be first report from India.