THIRTY TWO ALGAE NEW RECORDS REPORTED IN PONDS AT GWER SUB-DISTRICT, ERBIL -KURDISTAN REGION, IRAQ

Abstract

One of the main types of microorganisms in aquatic ecosystems is algae including phytoplanktons which are microscopic photosynthetic organisms some of them extremely resistance to unsuitable environmental condition and widely distributed such as Cyanophyta, Algae are living as epipelic, epilithic, epiphytic and free-floating in open or surface waters, they are found in unicellular, colonial, coenobic and filamentous forms (Banyasz, 2011). In Iraqi Kurdistan Region a phycolimnological study were carried out from 1978 to 2012 a total of (1341) species were recorded in algal check list in Kurdistan ( Aziz, 2011). While the first paper was that of Maulood and Hinton (1978), and the last one more recently have done (Abdulwahid, 2012; Aziz, 2014 and Aziz et al., 2014). The aim of the present work is algal study in parallel with same physical and chemical water parameters of such water ponds to increasing the knowledge about algal distribution and abundance in Iraqi Kurdistan region.