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Unveiling a Hidden Gem: The Discovery of a New Freshwater Red Algal Species (Sheathia meghalayensis Elaya Perumal & Palanisamy, 2026) in Meghalaya, India by Botanical Survey of India

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The Discovery of Sheathia meghalayensis   Elaya Perumal & Palanisamy, 2026 The world of phycology—the study of algae—just got a little more fascinating. While marine red algae dominate our coastal vocabulary, their freshwater counterparts, the Rhodophyta, represent an ancient and highly specialized evolutionary lineage. (Photo credit: Dr. U Elaya Perumal, Botanical Survey of India) In a paper published in Current Science , researchers U. Elaya Perumal and M. Palanisamy from the Botanical Survey of India announced a major taxonomic breakthrough: the discovery of a distinct, critically endangered freshwater red alga named Sheathia meghalayensis  Elaya Perumal & Palanisamy, 2026 . (Photo credit: Dr. U Elaya Perumal, Botanical Survey of India) The Background: Filling a Critical Gap in India’s Biodiversity Northeastern India is recognized as a global biodiversity hotspot, yet its freshwater macroalgae have historically lagged behind marine species in documentation. Prior su...

Prof. Isabella Aiona Abbott Hawai'ian Phycologist | Prominent Algologists around the World | Scientist of the Week

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  Prof. Isabella Aiona Abbott Prof. Isabella Aiona Abbott, whose native Hawai'ian name was Isabella Kauakea (White Rain of Hana) Yau Yung Aiona was born on June 20, 1919. Her father was ethnically Chinese while her mother was a Native Hawaiian. Abbott was the only girl and second youngest in a family of eight siblings. She received her undergraduate degree in botany at the University of Hawaii at Mānoa in 1941, a master's degree in botany from the University of Michigan in 1942, and a Ph.D. in botany from the University of California, Berkeley in 1950. In that era, women with PhDs were scarce and faculty positions for them were even scarcer.  She was the first Native Hawai’ian woman to earn a Ph.D. in science.  She married a zoologist Donald Putnam Abbott, who had been a fellow student at the University of Hawaii as well as Berkeley. The couple moved to Pacific Grove, California where her husband taught at the Hopkins Marine Station run by Stanford University.  For ...

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