... It is evident that the physio-geographic diversity of the Indian subcontinent, with the availability of at least four major biomes (tropical rainforests, coastal regions, tundra regions, deserts) and an extensive monsoon coupled with availability of oceans and seas on at least three sides of the country, make it a biogeographic hub. The polyphasic approach for evaluating cyanobacterial diversity has picked up pace in India with descriptions of novel genera like Desertifilum, Aliinostoc, Leptoelongatus, Euryhalinema, Desikacharya, Dulcicalothrix, Constrictifilum, Aerofilum, Johanseniella, Fulbrightiella, Almyronema and, most recently, Ahomia (Bagchi et al., 2017;Chakraborty et al., 2019Chakraborty et al., , 2021Chavadar et al., 2021;Dadheech et al., 2012;Kumar et al., 2023;Pal et al., 2024;Pal, Saraf, Kumar, Singh, Talukdar, et al., 2022;Roy et al., 2023;Saraf, Suradkar, et al., 2019). Thus, although extensive work has been undertaken in the past few years to explore the cyanobacterial diversity from different regions of India along, resolving taxonomic complications of these omnipresent, ancient, and ever evolving prokaryotes, several interesting regions and zones of the Indian subcontinent are yet to be explored. ...