Phytoplankton Species in Hong Kong Coastal Waters

198 Proboscia alata 翼鼻狀藻 Phylum: Heterokontophyta 门:不等鞭毛門 Class: Mediophyceae 纲:中型硅藻綱 Order: Probosciales 目:鼻狀藻目 Family: Probosciaceae 科:鼻狀藻科 Morphology Cells are slender cylindrical in shape, with thin frustules. Cells are solitary or form short chains. Valves are roughly subconical and tapering to a proboscis, tube-like structure with round blunt ends. The tubular structure at both ends of the cell obliques in the same direction. 形態 細胞呈細長圓柱形,細胞壁較薄。細胞獨立生活或形成短鏈。殼面凸起呈近似圓錐 形,頂端收縮成象鼻形管狀突起,末端鈍圓。細胞兩端的管狀結構向同一方向傾斜。 Ecology and distribution Proboscia alata is a neritic cosmopolitan species with a broad temperature range. 生態與分佈 翼鼻狀藻主要分佈在沿岸的廣溫性物種。 Size Length (pervalvar axis): up to 300-500 μm (Cupp, 1943; Hendey, 1964; Sykes, 1981). Width (diameter, apical axis): 3-7 μm (Chin et al., 1965); 4-6 μm (Hendey, 1964); 4-7 μm (Isamu, 1991); 5.22 μm (Guo et al., 2003); 6-7μm (Al-Kandari et al., 2009)

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