“…Khanda Gad stream has been reported to have 14 different species of water mites (Acari: Hydrachnidia) (Kumar and Dobriyal, 1992;Pesic et al, 2004;2007a-b;Kumar et al, 2007;Bahuguna and Negi, 2021). Periphyton diversity and distribution in relation to stream physicochemical parameters have a significant impact on the occurrence of several aquatic mites (Pesic et al, 2020ab;2022a,b;Baluni et al, 2017Baluni et al, ,2018Baluni et al, ,2020Bahuguna et al, -b, 2020aBaluni 2020;Negi et al, 2021a,b), drifting behaviour of micro and macrozoobenthos (Bahuguna et al, 2019b(Bahuguna et al, , 2020bDobriyal, 2020,2022) and on the diversity of fishes (Rayal et al, 2021 a,b;Bahuguna 2020Bahuguna ,2021Bahuguna and Joshi, 2012;Bahuguna et al, 2010) as well as macrozoobenthos (Rautela, et al, 2006;Bahuguna and Dobriyal, 2018;Kumar and Dobriyal, 1999;Mamgain et al, 2021) Declaration: We also declare that all ethical guidelines have been followed during this work and there is no conflict of interest among authors.…”