Keywords: Present paper deals with the study of aquatic fungi collected from different regions of Maharashtra. The three genera belongings to order Saprolegniales (Zygomycotina) viz. Brevilegnia subclavata Couch, Saprolegnia terrestis Cookson ex Seymour, Thraustotheca clavata (de Bary) Humphery. Members of Zygomycetes are popularly known as 'Watermolds'. The taxonomy of watermolds cannot remain static, when rest is changing. These fungi harbour in waters and on moist soils and can also be

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... ed from the different animals and plants using them as baits. They vary in their occurrence, distribution, asexual and sexual reproductive structures in relation to ecological factors. These all are new records from the state. Zygomycotina, Saprolegniales, ecological factors.