• RAVINDRA V. BAKARE
• SAVITA P. NALAWADE

Satara district of state Maharashtra prove to be the most appreciated region for the study of biodiversity as it includes Mahabaleshwar, the hill station with thick forest and the Kas plateau, the world heritage for floral diversity. It has ample number of lentic and lotic perennial water bodies which can be explored for zooplankton and other kind of floral and faunal studies. Current efforts are made to study free living protozoan diversity of selected stations from the Krishna River at Wai, Satara and Karad. As like other floral and faunal diversity good number of varieties are seen representing almost every group of free living protozoa.

protozoa Krishna river rhizopoda ciliophora mastigophora

"FREE LIVING PROTOZOAN DIVERSITY IN SELECTED STATIONS OF KRISHNA RIVER IN SATARA DISTRICT, M. S., INDIA", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 4, page no.91-96, April-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1904513.pdf

"FREE LIVING PROTOZOAN DIVERSITY IN SELECTED STATIONS OF KRISHNA RIVER IN SATARA DISTRICT, M. S., INDIA", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 4, page no. pp91-96, April-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1904513.pdf