“…Fresh water ecosystems are differentiated into various types of planktons (free floating), benthoms (attached to sediments) and epiphytic algae attached to hydrophytes, stones, mud, sand, reservoir rocks and lakes [3,4]. Various studies have been carried out in the Indian context related various aspects of phytoplankton such as seasonal distribution [5,6], diversity of fresh water algae [1,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15], seasonal variations and physical-chemical aspects [6,16,17,18] and algal blooms [19].…”