Abundance and Diversity of fungi in salt pan and marine ecosystem of the east coast of Tamil Nadu, India

Marine fungi have the ability to grow at certain seawater concentrations (Johnson and Sparrow, 1961; Tubaki, 1969). It has been shown that marine fungi cannot be defined strictly on a physiological basis where as, a broad ecological definition names that the marine fungi of obligate types are those that grow and sporulate exclusively in a marine and estuarine habitat. Facultative forms are those from fresh water or terrestrial milieus able to grow in the marine environment (Kohlmeyer, 1974).