A preliminary checklist of the benthic marine macroalgae of Rotuma

To the author' s knowledge, no phycological investigation of Rotuma took place prior to the present research, although the nearby Fijian algal flora has been fairly well studied (vide South and Kasahara, 1992). Hence this present checklist represents the first record of the Rotuman algal flora, which is dealt with in more detail by N'Yeurt (1993), South and N'Yeurt (1992) and South et al. (1993)