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Oligotrich ciliates are the most abundant group of the microzooplankton, feeders on microscopic algae in the plankton. This small (50 microns), very typical cell is probably a Strombidium.
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Data from Dolan, J.R., Pierce, R.W. 2012. 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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Specimen from the Bay of Villefranche
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Specimen from the Barents Sea
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Specimen from the Arctic. Species was described by Daday from specimens found off Naples.
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Specimen from the tropical Pacific.
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Figure from the species description in Hada 1935; dimensions from text.
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This is a common ciliate of coastal waters. The shell or lorica obscures a good view of the ciliate cell (the brown matter). It is about 150 microns in total length.
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Metacylis mediterranea: Lugol's-fixed specimen collected June 28 2010 from the Bay Villefranche (43°41’10’’ N, 7°19’00’’ E).
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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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The image on the left is transmitted light showing the cell inside the lorica or shell- and on the right an image with epifluorescence showing the cell macronucleus (green), an ingested chlorophyll-containing algal cell (red) and two Synechococcus cyanobacteria cells (yellow-orange).
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Specimen from Sète, France.
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Specimen from the Amundsen Sea in 2011 (Bouin's-fixed)
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First depicted in the species description in Kofoid & Campbell 1929 and described again in Kofoid & Campbell 1939.
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From Fauré-Fremiet, E. 1924. Contributions à la connaissance des infusoires planktoniques. Bulletin Biologique de France de Belgique, 58, Supplément 6, 1-169.
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A genus of species found mostly in Arctic and Sub-Artic waters. Data from: Dolan, J.R., Pierce, R.W. 2012. 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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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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From Jörgensen 1890 (plate 1, fig. 6). Dimension from text on page 24.
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Figure from the species description in Jorgensen 1924 (Fig. 24); dimensions from text.
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From the South Pacific
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Specimen from the Bay of Villefranche in Jan. 2011.