Fish 101 Section 1 Report No.

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Joyce A. Hilario 2012-70720







Division: Chlorophyceae
Genus: Halimeda
Species name: opuntia
Description: Plant forms amorphous clumps and is
attached to substrate by rhizoids arising from
segments at the lower portion of clumps.
Segments are heavily calcified, oriented in various
directions.

Division: Phaeophyceae
Genus: Sargassum
Species name: oligocystum
Description: Plant is up to 600mm tall, with short
stipe giving rise to four flattened primary branches.
Lanceolate and bigger leaves with toothed margin
are found in basal portion while smaller leaves are in
the upper part. Midrib is prominent and vanishing
towards apex with cryptostomata arranged along
midrib. Vesicle has a flat stalk petiole 1.3 mm
diameter is ellipsoidal to ellipsoidal to spherical,
solitary, or in clusters.
Division: Phaeophyceae
Genus: Turbinaria
Species name: conoides
Description: Plant is erect, 150-160 mm tall, dark
brown, and attached by coarse branched holdfast
to coral rock. Branching is irregular. Leaves, 5-11
mm long and triangular, are turbinate and
outlined by coarse marginal teeth.








Division: Phaeophyceae
Genus: Turbinaria
Species name: ornata
Description: Plant is 350-390 mm tall, erect,
tough, dark brown and firmly attached to rocks by
a well-developed branching holdfast. Leaves are
coarse, turbinate, fleshy and crowded along erect
axis. Center top of blade is concave and partialled
or fully surrounded by a crown of teeth. A single
vesicle may be found at depressed center usually
among leaves at upper por
Division: Rhodophyceae
Genus: Galaxaura
Species name: fasciculata
Description: Plant is 115 mm tall and attached to
substrate by a discoid holdfast. Branching is
dichoromous. Branches possess numerous soft
and long hairs or extended assimilatory filaments.
Division:Phaeophyceae
Genus: Dictyota
Species name: ciliolata
Description: Plant is 100 mm tall, erect, bushy, and
light to dark brown. Branching is regularly
dichotomous. Branches are flat 4-5 mm wide with
rounded and entire tips.






Division: Phaeophyceae
Genus: Padina
Species name: minor
Description: Plant is 50-80 mm tall and yellowish
brown to light brown, lightly calcified. Concentric
hairlines on upper portion of blade are not well
developed while lower portion of blade consists
of concentric zones equidistant from each other.

Division: Phaeophyceae
Genus:Lobophora
Species name: variegata
Description: Blade is thin, flattened, 15-45 mm x
10-70 mm, and orange to dark brown. Blade has a
medulla composed of a layer of large cuboidal
cells and 4-10 layers of sub-cortical and cortical
cells.
Division: Chlorophyceae
Genus:Ulva
Species name: lactuca
Description: The thallus is grass green,
membranous lobed and without perforations. It
is attached by a discoid holdfast on rocks in the
lower intertidal, especially eutrophic areas.








Division: Rhodophyceae
Genus: Gracilaria
Species name: firma
Description: Plants yellowish brown to green in
color, erect, branches terete, distinctly
constricted at the base with tapered or
somewhat blunt tips; branching irregular
alternate, main axis more robust than branches.
Division: Rhodophyceae
Genus: Gracilaria
Species name: firma
Description: Plants yellowish brown to green in
color, erect, branches terete, distinctly
constricted at the base with tapered or
somewhat blunt tips; branching irregular
alternate, main axis more robust than branches.
Division:
Genus: Soliera
Species name: robusta
Description:

Division: Phaeophyceae
Genus: Padina
Species name: australis
Description:Plant is up to 120 mm tall, large,
light brown, slightly calcified and with flattened
blade. Flat blade is alternately divided by distinct
hairlines into wide and narrow glabrous zones;
the latter in the lower portion of blade bear the
non-indusiate sori.