Freshwater Diatoms of Waghur Dam Jalgaon, Maharashtra

Abstract : Diatoms can be easily distinguished from almost all other algal groups by the presence of silicified walls . And are also ubiquitous and form quite an important group in aquatic ecosystem and in food cycles. Diatoms are found in all possible places like pools, puddles , cisterns , tanks, ponds, river , moist , dam, lakes , rain water passages , streams , rivulets , soils, paddy fields, polluted waters , etc..The collection of Freshwater Diatoms from Waghur Dam has observed 6 Genus with their 41 species and has been recorded in this following paper .