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Tintinnid Ciliate, a member of the micrzooplankton. The species is Dictyocysta elegans, found in the Bay of Villefranche-sur Mer. It is about 100 microns in length. This specimen was found in a sample from New Caledonia
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Drawing from original description of Amphorides amphora as Tintinnus amphora from Claparède & Lachmann 1858 (Plate 8 figure 3).
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Claparède & Lachmann's 1858 figure from Plate 9 of Tintinnus quadrilineata, now known as Amphorides quadrilineata
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A common tintinnid ciliate in Mediterranean. It is about 150 microns long. Like other tintiinids, the ciliate cell which resembles an oligotrich ciliate is inside a shell or lorica. Tintinnids feed on phytoplankton, microscopic algae and in turn serve as food for larger plankton organisms such as copepods and fish larvae.
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Lugol's-fixed specimen from the Bay of Villefranche (43°41’10’’ N, 7°19’00’’ E) in Sept 2010.
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Living specimen from the Bay of Villefranche. The species is often found attached to a large diatom.
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From Daday 1887 described as Tintinnus inquilinus, Plate 18, fig. 2.
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The image shows 3 specimens of Eutintinnus fraknoii; 'normal, 'cytoplasm consumed by a parasite' and a lorica or shell full of newly formed parasites. All 3 specimens are from a sample taken at 50 meters depth at a station off the coast of Chile.
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Drawing from Plate 18, fig. 1; dimensions from text description page 582.
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This is a quite small tintinnid species found in the Mediterranean Sea and elswhere. This image was compiled from several micrographs using Helicon software.
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Helicostomella subulata specimen from Scripps Canyon area (Southern California) in July 2009.
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This is a tintinnid ciliate found commonly in coastal waters of Europe and elsewhere. It is a plankton ciliate. The shell or lorica which contains the ciliate cell is about 150 microns long
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Another tintinnid ciliate from the Peche cruise which occupied the Dyfamed site between Nice and Corsica in September 2004 for nearly a month.
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Live specimen from Bay in Villefranche (43°41’10’’ N, 7°19’00’’ E) in Sept 2010. The lorica is covered in coccoliths.
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Tintinnid species
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Original description of Codonellopsis morchella as Condonella morchella by Cleve (1899).
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Codonellopsis morchella 'Rockhound' - Live specimen from Bay of Villefranche (43°41’10’’ N, 7°19’00’’ E) in Sept. 2010.
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Specimen from the Bay of Villefranche, lugol's fixed
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Specimen from the Bay of Villefranche
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The first depiction of the species now known as Parafavella denticulate was by Claparède and Lachmann in Plate 8 (1858) as Tintinnus denticulatus (pp. 201-203). The dimension shown is from the text description.
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Cymatocylis species are restricted to the Southern Ocean and are characteristic of Antarctic waters. Distributional data re-plotted from Dolan, J.R., Pierce, R.W. 2013. Diversity and Distributions of Tintinnid Ciliates. in Biology and Ecology of Tintinnid Ciliates: Models for Marine Plankton, Dolan, J.R., Agatha, S., Coats, D.W., Montagnes, D.J.S., Stocker, D.K. (eds). Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, pp 214-243.
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Condonellopsis pusilla was orignially described by Cleve (1899) as Codonella pusilla.