Tintinnopsis Stein 1867

Fig 1: Tintinnopsis nana Line drawings a: Original drawing from Lohmann,1908; b. Drawing from a Lugol?s fixed specimen.

Tintinnopsis davidoffi.

Fig 2: Tintinnopsis nana - Schematic drawing of lorica morphology, after Kofoid & Campbell, 1929

Fig 3: Tintinnopsis nana - Schematic drawing of lorica morphology, after Marshall, 1969

Fig 4: Tintinnopsis nana - Lugol?s fixed cell, lateral view, lorica morphology.

Fig 1: Tintinnopsis baltica Schematic drawings of lorica morphologie: After Laval-Peuto & Brownlee 1986;

Fig 2 Original drawing of Tintinnopsis baltica (after Möbius, 1887);

Fig 3 After Kofoid & Campbell 1929.

Tintinnopsis tentaculata specimens from the Ganges River estuary.

From an Indian mangrove system. All the specimens had 2 or 3 horns. The species was described by Nie & Cheng in 1947 from coastal waters of China as having 5 or 6 projections.

Specimen from the Chesapeake Bay.

From an Indian mangrove wetland

Tintinnopsis rapa from the Canada Basin in the Arctic

Tintinnopsis parvula. Specimens from the Ganges River estuary.

Tintinnopsis radix from Pt B in the Bay of Villefranche. Specimen collected July 8 2013 and fixed with Lugol's; Z-stack of images made using a 20x objective and DIC optics.

Lugol's-fixed specimen from the Bay of Vilefranche in Sept 2010. Images taken using a 20x objective and compiled with Helico Focus

Lugol's-fixed specimen from the bay of Villefranche in Jan 2011.

Lugol's-fixed specimen from the Bay of Villefranche in Jan 2011.

Lugol's-fixed specimen from Pt B in Villefranche in December 2010.

Tintinnopsis radix FRom the Ganges River, estuarine portion (st ganga) in Jan 2013

This is an early stage of cell division in which the daughter cell is being formed with the development of a new mouth. The cell is an Protargol preparation of a sample from the Chesapeake Bay in 1987.

Parasites were mistaken for cysts, spores, embryos and gametes in early studies. The Laackmann 1908 paper is available on the Aquaparadox site on the page 'Classic Monographs'.