"China Algae Volume V Diatoms Division I Central Class

Author: Guo Yujie
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Publish Date: 2003-05-01
Features: This book is available for reference by biologists, botanists, and phycologists working in scientific research units and aquaculture production units, as well as faculty and students of relevant majors in colleges and universities. It documents four orders of the diatom class (Bacillariophyta) in the center of marine diatoms in China: Coscinodiscaceae, Aulacaceae, Biddulphiaceae, and Peridinaceae, comprising 12 families, 58 genera, 401 species, 50 subspecies, and 10 varieties. Each species includes descriptions of morphology and structure, native and distribution information, accompanied by detailed illustrations drawn from specimens in the country, as well as the latest domestic and international references. It also features Chinese and Latin name indexes. This is China's first systematic treatise on the four orders of diatoms.