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From the Arctic in summer 2012
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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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Figure 17 (dimensions added from text description) from Zacharias, O. (1906) Über periodizität und verbreitung verschiedener planktonwesen in südlichen meeren. Archiv für Hydrobiologie und Planktonkunde 1, 498-575.
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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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Specimen from the Bay of Villefranche (43°41’10’’ N, 7°19’00’’ E).
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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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Specimen from New Caledonia. Synonymous with Tintinnopsis platensis.
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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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Figure 8 (pg 520) from Zacharias, O. (1906) Über periodizität und verbreitung verschiedener planktonwesen in südlichen meeren. Archiv für Hydrobiologie und Planktonkunde 1, 498-575. Dimensions added from the text description.
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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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Specimen from the of Indian Sundarbans, Jyotirampur.
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Drawing from Plate 18, fig. 1; dimensions from text description page 582.
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Specimen from the central Med. sampled in 2008 during the Boum cruise.
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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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Specimen from the Bay of Villefranche
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Helicostomella subulata specimen from Scripps Canyon area (Southern California) in July 2009.
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Drawing from the source, dimensions from those given in the text.
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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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Specimen from Jellyfish Lake on the island of Palau. Image by Beatriz Beker of the University of Brest.
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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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Specimen from Scripps Canyon area (Southern California) in July 2009.