DIVERSITY OF CYANOPHYCEAE FROM THE NATAWAD DAM OF NANDURBAR DISTRICT, MAHARASHTRA, INDIA

The present investigation was carried out at the Natawad dam in the Nandurbar District of Maharashtra, India. Blue Green algae are cosmopolitan in distribution. Throughout the investigation, a total of 24 BGA species of 10 genera were identified. The reported BGA species are a) Gloeocapsa punctate b) Chroococcus pallidus c) Chroococcus minutus d) Chroococcus minor e) Microcystis aeruginosa f) Merismopedia marssonii g) Lyngbya aestuarii h) Lyngbya majuscule i) Lyngbya lutea j) Oscillatoria laete-virens var. minimus k) Oscillatoria martini l) Oscillatoria princeps m) Oscillatoria subbrevis n) Oscillatoria perornata o) Oscillatoria terebriformis p) Oscillatoria tenuis q) Oscillatoria chalybae r) Oscillatoria pseudogeminata s) Spirulina major t) Geitlerinema amphibium u) Geitlerinema calcuttensis v) Phormidium uncinatum w) Phormidium willei x) Pseudanabaena catenata etc. During the study of filamentous genera, Oscillatoria was the dominant genus observed.