Literature and original data on the species diversity and taxonomic structure of plankton algae of 16 tributaries of the middle and lower reaches of the Dnieper River, including the Pripyat, Uzh, Teterev, Zdvizh, Irpen, Desna, Lybed, Stugna, Krasnaya, Trubezh, Ros, Rosava, Supoy, Vorskla, Inguletz, and Vysun, have been generalized in the paper. It has been found that in the studied water bodies phytoplankton was represented by 811 species and 924 infraspecific taxa belonging to 9 divisions, 16 classes, 45 orders, 96 families, and 209 genera.

Keywords: small rivers, the Dnieper River basin, phytoplankton, species composition, taxonomic structure

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