Phytoplankton Species in Hong Kong Coastal Waters

48 Nitzschia ventricosa 膨脹菱形藻 Phylum: Heterokontophyta 门:不等鞭毛门 Class: Bacillariophyceae 纲:羽紋硅藻纲 Order: Bacillariales 目:硅藻目 Family: Bacillariaceae 科:硅藻科 Morphology Cells are solitary, long, and straight. Valves are lanceolate. The middle part of the valves expands into a navicular shape, and then sharply contracts into a slender stick shape. Central nodules are small. Chloroplasts are numerous, irregularly shaped, and scattered throughout cell. 形態 細胞單獨生活,長且直。殼面披針形,中部膨大呈舟形,隨後驟然收縮成細長棍狀。 中節較小。色素體較多,形狀不規則,散落在細胞內。 Ecology and distribution Nitzschia ventricosa is a benthic species which could also be epiphytic. 生態與分佈 膨脹菱形藻是底棲物種,也可附著生活。 粒徑 長(縱軸):171到188微米 (Al-Yamani et al., 2011; 2019);140 到438微米(高 亞輝等,2021)

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