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Microscopic Marvels
The beauty of protists and plankton!
Date : 20/01/2022
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Diversity of Planktonic Protists
Date : 05/11/2010
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Microzooplankton of Villefranche
Microzooplankton of Villefranche
Date : 08/10/2012
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Diversity of Planktonic Ciliates in the Bay of Villefranche
A large Strobilidium-type (A), the mixotroph Labeao strobila (B), Strombidium-type oligotrichs of various sizes (E, F, G, H, C), and mixotroph Tontonia-types (D, I)
Date : 13/06/2018
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Planktonic Protists: plants and grazers
Date : 27/01/2011
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Massuti & Margalef's Intro to Marine Plankton
Cover & frontispiece of Massuti & Margalef's 1950 classic 'Introduction to the Study of Marine Plankton'. Artwork by F. Benitez
Date : 24/04/2024
Affichages : 911
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Ocean Bottom Map
Date : 30/04/2020
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Cleve's map of North Sea plankton types.
From Cleve, P. T. 1897. A Treatise of the Phytoplankton of the Atlantic and itsTributaries and the Periodic Changes of the Plankton of Skagerak. Upsala Nya Tidnings Aktiebolags Tryckeri, Uppsala, Sweden, 27 pp.
Date : 27/07/2022
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Cleve's map of the North Altantic phytoplankton in summer. "Okändt" signifies unknown.
From Cleve, P. T. 1897. A Treatise of the Phytoplankton of the Atlantic and its Tributaries and the Periodic Changes of the Plankton of Skagerak. Upsala Nya Tidnings Aktiebolags Tryckeri, Uppsala, Sweden, 27 pp.
Date : 27/07/2022
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The only Scientific American cover featuring plankton collection
Cover of Scientific American issue containing a never cited article: Kofoid, C.A. 1912. A new apparatus for marine exploration. Recently invented deep-sea nets. Scientific. American, 106:174.
Date : 31/07/2022
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Arthur Shackelton Campbell
Sometimes tintinnid researchers are in in the news! Arthur Campbell in the Oakland Tribune in 1936.
Date : 19/07/2023
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How to see microzooplankton
Microzooplankton sampling and sample processing. Samples of seawater from a desired depth are obtained using a Niskin bottle. The bottle (1), open at both ends, is lowered to the desired depth and then the top and bottom lids are closed. The water sample
Date : 31/10/2018
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Home away from home for many years
Photo by Vincent Moncorgé photographe
Date : 27/12/2018
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PlanktonScape
November 2013
Date : 03/06/2014
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"The Remains of The Day"
Tintinnid, Dinoflagellate and Radiolarian remains (no cytoplasm)
Date : 13/04/2019
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Arctic Micro Battle
Date : 30/01/2013
Affichages : 5446
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Ceratium Wheel
Ceratium symmetricum and a diatom from the Sea of Japan
Date : 18/10/2014
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As if Gustav Klimt painted Laacckmanniella naviculaefera
Date : 04/12/2016
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Microzooplankton
Grazers of the plankton: Dinoflagellates (spindle-shaped Gyrodinium, spiny globe Protoperidinium) and a tintinnid ciliate (hairy-topped cell in a shell Favella)
Date : 17/10/2012
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Dozens of different species of tintinnid ciliates (hairy things in the tiny shells), all of them grazers on microscopic algae
Date : 11/08/2011
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Chatton PLate
From Edouard Chatton's chapter "Classe des Dinoflagelles ou Péridiniens" published posthumously (1952) in Traité de Zoologie, Tome 1A. Fig. 1 euglenoid Euglena intermedia; Fig. 2 dinoflagellate Gyrodinium melo; Fig. 3 dinoflagellate Amphidinium
Date : 15/03/2016
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A dinoflagellate (the tripod-shaped cell) sporting a silicoflagellate (star-shaped cell).
Date : 03/04/2009
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Tintinnids as tiny glasses for mermaids
Have a drink with a ciliate. Poroecus curtus and Rhabdonella spiralis as Biot glass stemware.
Date : 05/01/2013
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Entering Warp Speed
Actually a colony of pennate diatoms rearranged.
Date : 05/05/2014
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Radiosperma corbiferum Meunier 1910
Date : 10/03/2013
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Some plankton protists have hard parts, shells or skeletons.
Date : 03/04/2009
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Dictyocha fibula, a silicoflagellate
Date : 03/04/2009
Affichages : 6184
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Gold Star
Skeleton of the silicoflagellate Dictyocha speculum. Found in a sample taken in May 2014 from the Bay of Villefranche.
Date : 01/08/2014
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Myrionecta or Mesodinium rubrum
Date : 03/04/2009
Affichages : 6912
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Bacterivorous ciliate
Date : 03/04/2009
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A ciliate, Prorodon sp., has eaten pine pollen
Date : 29/09/2009
Affichages : 5852
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Tiarina fusus
Date : 27/04/2010
Affichages : 6224
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Swimmimg oligotrich ciliate with its prey
Date : 03/04/2009
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Laboea strobila
Date : 03/04/2009
Affichages : 6073
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A mixotrophic oligotrich ciliate: Tontonia
Date : 30/07/2010
Affichages : 5890
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Oligotrich ciliate from the Southern Ocean
A tontonnid oligotrich ciliate from the Amundsen Sea in Antarctica. Bouin's-fixed specimen imaged using a 20x objective.
Date : 29/08/2012
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Torch?
Date : 04/06/2012
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Arctic oligotrich ciliate Foissneridium constrictum
Foissneridium constrictum (probably according to Sabine Agatha). Species orginally described as Conocylis constricta by Meunier (inset) from the Kara Sea. Specimens shown from the Chukchi Sea (Arctic). Left panel shows ventral side, right panel the dors
Date : 24/03/2013
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Strombidium-type oligotrich lugol's-fixed.
A common "30 something" (microns) Strombidium-like oligotrich from the Bay of Villefranche.
Date : 09/04/2014
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Balanion sp. (perhaps B. comatum)
A very small planktonic ciliate from the Bay of Villefranche in April 2014
Date : 09/04/2014
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A marine Didinium
The predatory ciliate Didinium found at Point C in a sample from 30 m depth on June 19 2018
Date : 14/08/2018
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Haptophyte algae from the Bay of Villefranche
Date : 08/09/2010
Affichages : 5923
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A vibrio-like bacterium (not a protist) infected with viruses.
Date : 05/11/2010
Affichages : 5535
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Examples of the diversity of forms in species of the genus Ceratium, dinoflagellates of the phytoplankton (plants).
Date : 05/11/2010
Affichages : 5426
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Scyphosphaera apsteinii
Date : 07/12/2010
Affichages : 6001
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Scyphosphaera apsteinii
A coccolithophorid (phytoplankton = algae) from Tara Oceans Expedition Station 65
Date : 03/01/2013
Affichages : 4234
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We usually assume that "Big Fish eat Little Fish" (Pieter Bruegel the Elder 1556)
Date : 13/11/2011
Affichages : 5833
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Van Leeuwenhoek Protists: A Foraminfera and a Ciliate
Date : 17/04/2011
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Appears to earliest illustration of oligotrich and tintinnid ciliates in 'Fig. 1' of Plate 10 from Baster 1757
Baster, J. (1757). XXXII. Observationes de corallinis, iisque insidentibus polypis, aliisque animalculis marinis: Quas Regiæ Societati Londinenst offert Job Baster, Med. Doct. Acad. Cæsar. Reg. Societ. Lond. & Scient. Holland. Socius. Philosophical Tr
Date : 17/08/2022
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The first description of a tintinnid species was in Otto Fredrick Müller's "Zoologica Danica" published in 1776.
Date : 23/06/2011
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1873HaeckelPlates
The plates from Ernst Haeckel's 1873 article, the first article devoted to tin tintinnid ciliates:
Haeckel, E. 1873. Ueber einige pelagische Infusorien. Jenaische Zeitschrift für Medizin und Naturwissenschaft, 7:561-568
Date : 06/01/2024
Affichages : 895
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Snitch
Snitch from Harry Potter? No, likely Pterosperma vanhoeffenii
Date : 08/02/2013
Affichages : 4953
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Mermaids Collecting for Us
A Naturalist Day-Dream by Elisabeth Gullands. An adaptation (cameo version). The base image is at the end of John Murray's introduction to "A summary of the Scientific Results of the Voyage of the H.M.S. Challenger" C. W. Thompson & J. Mur
Date : 21/03/2012
Affichages : 4710
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Mermaid towing a plankton net in Villefranche
Photographing Mermaids is much more difficult than faries as they are fast swimmers.
Date : 22/08/2010
Affichages : 4771
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Pterosperma cuboides
Pterosperma cuboides
Date : 09/04/2013
Affichages : 4617
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Plankton Wear
Plankton Fashion Victims Triptych
Date : 30/01/2013
Affichages : 4649
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Tin Can
Date : 10/08/2011
Affichages : 5007
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Tintinnids of Ernst Haeckel
Date : 28/02/2012
Affichages : 7659
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Tintinnid as part of artwork - Mara Haseltine
Date : 11/03/2012
Affichages : 5007
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Sketch for La Boheme by Mara Haseltine
Date : 12/03/2012
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Ceraphim by ThaliaAngel91
Date : 08/05/2011
Affichages : 5166
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Ceratium ranipes by Annika Lange
Date : 09/05/2011
Affichages : 4932
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A book of their own: The Biology and Ecology of Tintinnid Ciliates: models for marine plankton.
Date : 12/03/2012
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Antarctic ciliate Euplotes
Date : 21/05/2012
Affichages : 4820
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Plankton organisms (mostly protists) from waters near Kiel, Germany, by Hans Lohmann (1908, Figure 7).
Date : 29/06/2011
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Some of Karl Brandt's drawings of Dictyocysta species. Plate 2 from Brandt 1906
Date : 14/04/2011
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Exactly how many?
Date : 28/06/2011
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Planktonic protists includes parasites.
Date : 13/08/2011
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Tiny Mermaid Ring
From the Tropical Pacific Ocean, off Costa Rica. This tiny ring, hand crafted of living diatoms, is evidence in support of the existence of very small mermaids. Based on the ring size, the mermaid are about 2 - 3 cm long, explaining in part why they have
Date : 31/03/2013
Affichages : 4491
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Pediastrum simplex
Pediastrum simplex, a desmid algae - a nice looking phytoplankter.
Date : 08/04/2013
Affichages : 4889
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Faure-Fremiet's Tontonia
Fauré-Fremiet's drawing from his description of the most bizarre oligotrich Tontonnia appendiculiformis: a mixotroph with a pogo stick bouncing tail.
Date : 11/07/2013
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Microplankton by Okamura
Plate from Okamura 1906 "An Annotated List of Plankton Microrganisms of the Japanese Coast".
Date : 16/09/2013
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Plankton net tow (50 µm) material imaged using a 10x objective
December 16 2013 - Bay of Villefranche - Lots of pointy stuff
Date : 16/12/2013
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Radiolarian
Whole cell and the skelelton of a radiolarian (microzooplankter) from the South Pacific. From a sample taken at station 98 of the Tara Oceans Expedition.
Date : 25/01/2014
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Shallow water fish - Hanauma Bay, Hawaii
Convict Tang, Acanthurus triostegus, and whitspotted surgeonfish, Acanthurus guttatus. Feb 21 2014.
Date : 21/02/2014
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Nano Strobilid ciliate
A very small strobilid ciliate from the Bay of Villefranche in November 2013.
Date : 11/04/2014
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Tontonia type oiigotrich
A very small (30 µm) tontonid oligotrich ciliate from the Bay of Villefranche in April 2014.
Date : 23/04/2014
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Another tontonid oligotrich ciliate
A medium-sized tontonid oligotrich ciliate from the Bay of Villefranche in October 2013. Z-stack of image made using a 40x objective, lugol's-fixed specimen.
Date : 29/04/2014
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A Flagellate's Nightmare
A marine daphnia: Penilia avirostris from the Bay of Villefranche in September 2013
Date : 18/07/2014
Affichages : 4523
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bluenaupli
Copepod nauplius from the Bay of Villefranche.
Date : 16/11/2015
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Deep-Sea Nauplius
Naupliar stage of something (live specimen) from a deep net tow (275-225m) on Sept 7, 2020.
Date : 07/09/2020
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Copepod from the Arctic
Arctic Copepod (Chukchi Sea) - predator of planktonic protists
Date : 13/02/2013
Affichages : 4707
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Sea Monkey (prawn larvae)
Date : 08/01/2016
Affichages : 4284
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Notholuca japonica var. kisselevi Kutikova 1970
A marine rotifer, about 200 µm long, found in a plankton tow in the bay.
Date : 08/10/2020
Affichages : 2581
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A Ciliate's Nightmare: Copepods Working Together
Date : 11/11/2014
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Noctiluca by W. Vignal 1878
From Vignal's 1878 paper on Noctiluca, a bioluminesent dinoflagellate.
Date : 02/11/2014
Affichages : 4687
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Northern Lights
From the Far Northwest Pacific
Date : 14/11/2014
Affichages : 4498
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Michaelsarsia elegans
Michaelsarsia, probably elegans, a coccolithophorid. Specimen from Tara Oceans station 66- the coccoliths on the cell surface are missing, formol-fixed sample. ID by Jeremy Young
Date : 06/06/2015
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Holy Grail
Very Small Holy Grail made from the tintinid Epiplocylis undella.
Date : 14/07/2015
Affichages : 4165
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A tiny oligotrich ciliate
A tiny strombid oligotrich found in the South Pacific, Outpace CTD 159, Bottle #9
Date : 07/08/2015
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Pterosperma moebii
From the South Pacific Pterosperma Moebii, Outpace CTD 159, Bottle # 7
Date : 09/08/2015
Affichages : 4333
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march14net
Plankton net tow on March 14th 2016. Very large numbers of tintinnids!
Date : 14/03/2016
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Issel 1934 Plate
Plate 3 from Issel (1934)- Microplankton from the Bay of Naples
Date : 09/08/2016
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Conover 1982 Fig1
Microzooplankton in the Marine Food Web from Conover 1982 (available http://aquaparadox.obs-vlfr.fr/html/ClassicMonographsGeneralPankton.php)
Date : 02/01/2017
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Eutintinnus apertus and its diatom Chaetoceras dadayi
A tintinnid and its diatom
Date : 15/11/2017
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Pterocanium trilobum Skeleton Haeckel 1862 Dictyopdium trilobum
Haeckel's drawing from his 1862 description of Dictyopdium trilobum, now known as Pterocanium trilobum, and a skeleton from Point C found on November 21 2017.
Date : 26/11/2017
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paleo planktonic trilobites
Date : 19/05/2018
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"Drop your haptoneme! You have the right to remain flagelllated...."
Haptophyte trapped by Dadayiella ganymedes
Date : 25/06/2018
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Nassularian Radiolarians of the Twilight Zone
Found at Point C from 250 m depth in June 2018.
Date : 07/07/2018
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Early Plankton Team
Date : 26/08/2018
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Seagrass Bed off ponton
Mediterranean Prairie
Date : 30/08/2018
Affichages : 3172
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Ehrenberg 1862 Tafel 3
Something for everyone (even a diving beetle): Plate 3 from Ehrenberg 1862
Date : 26/10/2018
Affichages : 3254
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Artists of The Drifting World
From Artists of the Drifting World of Plankton
Date : 06/12/2018
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Deep Sea Star Larvae
Sea Star larvae found in deep sea sample on Feb 12 2019.
Date : 13/02/2019
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Tafel 1 from Vanhöffen 1908: Aegina rosea, Aegina lactea, Aegina brunnea, Solmaris rhodoloma
Deep-Sea Medusa from Vanhöffen E. 1908. Die Narcomedusen. Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse der Deutschen Tiefsee-Expedition auf dem Dampfer ‘Valdivia’ 1898–1899,19:41–74.
Date : 22/02/2019
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Tafel 2 from Vanhöffen 1908: Cunoctuna grimaldi, cunoctuna obscura, Polyxenia cyanogramma , Solmaris flavescens
Deep-Sea Medusa from Vanhöffen E.1908. Die Narcomedusen. WissenschaftlicheErgebnisse der Deutschen Tiefsee-Expedition auf dem Dampfer ‘Valdivia’ 1898–1899
Date : 22/02/2019
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Negative version of 1899 Certes Plate 4.
Plate 4 from Certes, A. 1889. Mission Scientifique du Cap Horn. 1882-1883. Vol. 6 Zoologie. Protozoaires, L3-L43.
Date : 21/08/2020
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Louis Joblot - Magnifying Glass Holder -
Dessin d'un porte loupe from Louis Joblot 1718 "Descriptions et usages de plusieurs nouveaux microscopes, tant simples que composez; avec de nouvelles observations faites sur une multitude innombrable d'insectes, & d'autres animaux de diverses es
Date : 05/05/2019
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From Joblot 1718
This plate contains all of the more remarkable seen in 9 kinds of infusions. (Louis Joblot 1718)
Date : 05/05/2019
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Joblot at work
Louis Joblot at work
Date : 11/05/2020
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Le Pouple Colossal (Giant Octopus) from Denys-Monfort 1801
Plate 26 from Pierre Denys de Montfort, Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière des mollusques, animaux sans vertèbres et à sang blanc. Ouvrage faisant suite aux Ouvres de Leclerc de Buffon, et partie du Cours complet d'Histoire naturelle rédigé par
Date : 18/05/2019
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Monster Soup by William Heath
A woman dropping her porcelain tea-cup in horror upon discovering the monstrous contents of a magnified drop of Thames water; revealing the impurity of London drinking water. Coloured etching by W. Heath, 1828.
Date : 09/06/2019
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Bruguière Medusa
Medusa from Bruguière, J. G. (1791). Tableau encyclopédique et méthodique des trois règnes de la nature: helminthologie, vers, mollusques, zoophytes. Panckoucke, Paris.
Date : 25/07/2019
Affichages : 3115
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Transfiguration Carl Vogt's view: Plankton Trinity Rising
Frontispiece "Transfiguration" From Vogt, C. 1848 Ocean und Mittelmeer. Compare to Raphael's Transfiguration
Date : 03/08/2019
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Plankton Pump from Kofoid 897
Kofoid's Plankton Pump from Kofoid CA 1897. Plankton studies I. Methods and apparatus in use in plankton investigations at the Biological Experimental Station of the University of Illinois. Bulletin of the Illinois State Laboratory of Natural History 5:1-
Date : 22/08/2019
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Chimaera1866DeaconIntellObserv
Chimaera mediterranea from Deacon (1866) "Fishes observed at Nice, 1865"
Date : 10/05/2020
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Kinky Deep-Sea Fish
THe Kinky Private Lives of Deep-Sea Fish. From Beebe 1938.
Date : 14/01/2020
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Deep sea fish with teloscopic eyes.
"Pelagische Tiefseefische mit Teleskopaugen" from Carl Chun 1903. "Aus den Tiefen des Weltmeeres" Illistration by Fritz Winter.
Date : 16/02/2019
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Deep Sea Fish from Depths of the Ocean
Plate 8 from Murray & Hjorts' 1912 classic "Depths of the Ocean". Hydrolagus mirabilis (Collet 1904), originally known as Chimera mirabilis and Nezumia aequalis, originally known as Macrurus aequalis (Günther 1878).
Date : 02/03/2014
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Fish from Depths of the Ocean
Plate 2 from Murray & Hjort's 1912 classic Depths of the Ocean. Argyropelecus affinis, Gonostoma grande (now known as Sigmops bathyphilus) and Gonostoma elongatum.
Date : 02/03/2014
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Bertelsen 1951 Ceratoid Fish Plate
The oddest fish of planet Earth: deep-sea anglerfish. From Bertelsen, E. 1951. The Ceratoid fishes. Dana-Report no. 39.
Date : 06/09/2020
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Scyphosphaera apsteinii
Date : 22/01/2014
Affichages : 6085
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Nice in 1856
Map of Nice in 1856. Caution very large file, full res slow to load.
Date : 24/08/2024
Affichages : 194
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Haeckel hommage etching by J.F. Zalisz
Angels, Skeltons & Snakes in honor of Ernst Haeckel in 1914 by Joseph Fritz Zalisz (1893-1971). Odd fellow: Sculptor, painter, graphic artist and writer. After his school education, he completed zoological studies under Ernst Haeckel in Jena. Acquaint
Date : 26/08/2024
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