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From the Amundsen Sea
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Bouin's-fixed specimen from the Amundsen Sea, Antarctica- sample provide by Eun Jin Yang
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Specimen from the Amundsen Sea, bouin's-fixed. Compiled image made from 15 images (20x objective) using Helicon Focus.
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Bouin's-fixed specimen from tha Amundsen Sea, Antarctica. Sample provided by Eun Jin Yang.
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Cymatocylis affinis/convallaria. Specimen was not well-preserved but the lorica characteristics are apparent.
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Cymatocylis calyciformis from the Amundsen Sea. Bouin's-fixed specimen imaged using a 20x objective from a sample courtesy of Eun Jin Yang.
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Bouin's-fixed specimen from the Amundsen sea, Antartica. Sample provided by Eun Jin Yang
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Cymatocylis calyciformis
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Image of a Bouin's-fixed specimen from the Amundsen Sea in Antarctica. Sample courtesy of Eun Jin Yang.
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Cymatocylis drygalskii
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Drygalski was the head of the German South Polar Expedition of 1902-1903. Plankton net samples gathered were the basis of Hans Laackmann's monograph on tintinnids in which he named the species after Drygalski. Bouin's-fixed speciman from the Amundsen Sea, sample provided by Eun Jin Yang
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Edited composite image. 72 images were made with a 20x objective and then compiled using Helicon Focus. Bouin's-fixed specimen from the Amundsen Sea, sample provided by Eun Jin Yang.
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From the Amundsen Sea
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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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Specimen from the Amundsen Sea, lugol's fixed.
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Most agree that C. convallaria and C. affinis are probably one single species. this is a Bouin's- fixed specimen from the Amundsen Sea.
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Specimen from the Amundsen Sea, Bouin's-fixed.
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Cymatocylis was originally described by Cleve as "Amphorella (?) antarctica"