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OCCURRENCE OF PENNATE DIATOMS (BACILLARIOPHYTA) IN THE PUNJAB AND N. W. F. P., PAKISTAN

SYED TARIQ-ALI¹, MASUD-UL-HASAN² AND MUSTAFA SHAMEEL³

Abstract: Seven species of diatoms, belonging to 6 genera and 5 families of the order Bacillariales were collected from various freshwater habitats of Gujranwala, Lahore and Sialkot districts of the Punjab and Attock of N. W. F. P. (Pakistan) during January and December 2004. They were taxonomically evaluated and described for the first time from their area of collection. They usually occurred in winter and spring, no sexual reproduction was observed in them. Among them, the genus Cymatopleura, its two species such as C. elliptica, C. solea and Tabellaria fenestrata are being reported for the first time from Pakistan.

¹Department of Botany, Federal Urdu University of Arts, Science & Technology, Gulshan-e-Iqbal Campus, Karachi-75300
²Department of Botany, Govt. College University, Kachehri Road, Lahore-54000
³Department of Botany, University of Karachi, Karachi-75270, Pakistan