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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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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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From: Brandt, K. 1896. Die Tintinnen. Bibliotheca Zoologica, 20: 45-72.
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Specimen from the Sea of Japan sampled in 2012
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1 – 2. Didinium gargantua (http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=341712) 3. Ptychocylis sp (http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=196838). 4. Didinium gargantua (http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=341712) 5. Fusopsis umbracula (http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=178847) 6. Didinium gargantua (http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=341712) 7. Cyclotrichium cyclokaryon (http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=341295) 8. Didinium gargantua (http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=341712) 9. Uitwerpsel van een kreeftachtige 10 - 11. Didinium gargantua (http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=341712) 12 – 15. Proboscidium armatum 16. Cyclotrichium cyclokaryon (http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=341295) 17 – 18. Lacrymaria marina (http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=179314) 19. Euchelys sp.? 20. Strombidium sp.? 21. Stappersia fusus
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The genus Ptychocylis contains species found in Arctic and Sub-Arctic waters. Data 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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Drawing from original description in Daday 1887, Plate 21, Fig. 1
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From the Bay of Villefranche on May 2 2018
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Tintinnid Ciliate found in the Mediterranean Sea in off shore waters. The cell is the dark matter inside the lorica or shell. Total length is about 300 microns.
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From a deep water (275-225 m) net tow off shore from Villefranche-sur-Mer on July 21 2020.
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From Daday (1887) , plate 9. Figures illustrating 'Tintinnopsis beroidea, variety compressa'. It was raised to species by Kofoid and Campbell (1929).
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Specimen with particle agglomerated on the collar from the Etang de Thau (N.W. Medit)
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Favella ehrenbergii specimen from the Scripps Canyon area (Southern California) in July 2009.
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Favella Ehrenbergii (as Tintinnus ehrenbergii) based on specimens found near Bergen, Norway; text is on pp 203-204. Plate 8 legend states that the the drawings are of the same individual: the cell extended vibrating its cilia,the cell contracted within the lorica;'vc' denotes contractile vacuole and 'w' 'anus' or cytoproct. From Claparède, E., Lachmann, J. 1858-1860. Etudes sur les infusoires et les rhizopodes. Mémoires de l'instut Genevois, 5, 6 & 7.
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Specimen from a deep water net tow in the NW Medit Sea in June 2020
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Hermann Fol's drawing from the original description (1881) with his corrected dimensions (1884). False brown color added to the ciliate cell
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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.
