Contributions to the knowledge of marine phytoplankton of Turkey

Abstract

The present paper report, three species of dinoflagellates viz., Ceratium deflexum (Kofoid) Jorgensen. ceratium longissimum (Schroder) Kofoid, Triposolenia bicornis Kofoid and three Species of diatoms viz., Lyrella lyra (Ehrenberg) Karajeva, Pleurosigma reversum Gregory, Trachyneis aspera (Ehrenberg) Cleve, all belonging to marine phytoplankton for the first time from coastal waters of Turkey. Ceratium deflexum was also new record for the Aegean Sea and Pleurosigma reversum for the Eastern Mediterranean. Original photographs and some ecological and morphological characteristics of six phytoplankton species are given.