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What eats freshwater diatoms?


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Freshwater Diatoms:

  1. The single-celled algae living in freshwater are known as diatoms freshwater.
  2. The cell wall of diatoms is made up of transparent, opaline silica.
  3. They serve as phytoplanktons that are found in benthic zones of an aquatic ecosystem.

Organisms that eat freshwater diatoms:

  1. Nerite snails
  2. Cerith snails
  3. Trochus snails

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