The present study is the part of investigation involving identification of cyanobacteria from coastal water of Karachi. As report on the distribution cyanobacterial epizoic in coastal area of Pakistan is uncommon. In this study sixty five species of cyanobacteria were identified from various marine molluscan species collected from Buleji, a coast of Karachi. Most of cyanobacteria were from the order Chroococcales and Nostocales and only a small number of species were found to belong to Chamaesiphonales and Pleurocapsales. The epizoic species consists of 26 unicellular and 39 filamentous non-heterocystous cyanobacterial species. Heterocystous forms were not found during these studies. Cyanobacterial species showed a variable capacity to grow in various type of media. Also, some cyanobacteria were observed specifically on particular molluscs species, while other were common on all species.
Azra Bano, Pirzada J. A. Siddiqui. (2016) DISTRIBUTION OF EPIZOIC CYANOBACTERIA ON MOLLUSCAN SPECIES OCCURRING AT A ROCKY SHORE (BULEJI), KARACHI, PAKISTAN , , Volume 13, Issue 1.
