Check List 17(6): 1533-1539, doi: 10.15560/17.6.1533
Tintinnids (Ciliophora, Oligotrichea) within power plant discharge and marine protected areas in Masinloc-Oyon Bay
Jane Abigail Santiago‡, Ma Carmen Ablan-Lagman‡‡ De La Salle University, Manila, Philippines
Corresponding author: Jane Abigail Santiago ( janeabigailsantiago20@gmail.com ) Academic editor: Adalgisa Fernanda Cabral © Jane Abigail Santiago, Ma Carmen Ablan-Lagman. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Citation:
Santiago JA, Ablan-Lagman MC (2021) Tintinnids (Ciliophora, Oligotrichea) within power plant discharge and marine protected areas in Masinloc-Oyon Bay. Check List 17(6): 1533-1539. https://doi.org/10.15560/17.6.1533 |  |
Abstract
There are only five studies on tintinnids of the Philippines. We present a checklist of tintinnids (Ciliophora, Oligotrichea) from Masinloc-Oyon Bay, Province of Zambales, West Philippine Sea. Masinloc-Oyon Bay is a unique in having both marine protected areas and a coal-fired thermal power plant within the same bay. Field sampling was performed in July 2017, which recorded 10 species belonging to one order, six families, and seven genera. Station 1 inside the power plant’s outfall had the lowest diversity, whereas the stations within marine protected areas had a relatively higher species diversity index. Our new data are the first records of tintinnid species in Masinloc-Oyon Bay. These records add to the regional checklist of the Philippine Sea.
Keywords
Bioindicator, marine ciliates, lorica