| Abstract: | The littoral algae and their zonation on the short and hitherto phycologically virtually unexplored coast of Gambia (West Africa) were investigated during November 1975. Littoral zonation of benthic organisms was essentially similar to that found to the south in the Gulf of Guinea. Formerly only 4 species of algae had been reported specifically for Gambia but only 1 of these species was included in the 69 found in the present study. These new records, with the exception of just 2 species (Hypnea arbuscula and Ulva popenguinensis), are all found in the Gulf of Guinea and thus the previously known limit (Sierra Leone) of the truly tropical marine flora of West Africa is extented over 600 km to the north. |
