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A pair of conjugating Salpingella acuminata from 250 m on April 18 2017.

A pair of conjugating Salpingella acuminata from 250 m on April 18 2017.

Date : 19/04/2017 Affichages : 891

Métamorphes Microscopiques - Microscopic Shape Shifters

Some change from day to night (right) others make various types of shells (left). Details inside.

Date : 19/07/2013
Taille : 20 éléments
Métamorphes Microscopic Shape Shifters
 
 
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Métamorphes Microscopic Shape Shifters

Métamorphes microscopique du plancton

Date : 19/07/2013
Affichages : 1894
Ceratium ranipes Morphological Cycle
 
 

Ceratium ranipes Morphological Cycle

Every day at dawn the cell makes its fingers, filled with chloroplasts like the leaves of a tree. Every evening the fingers are absorbed and the cell swims more quickly- perhaps making it harder to be caught and eaten.

Date : 26/07/2013
Affichages : 1738
Shifting to day morphology
 
 
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Shifting to day morphology

Ceratium ranipes growing it fingers in the early morning. 'T' shows the number of minutes from dawn.

Date : 17/04/2009
Affichages : 1742
Shifting to Night Morphology
 
 

Shifting to Night Morphology

Ceratium ranipes absorbing fingers in the early evening. 'T' shows the number of minutes from sundown

Date : 16/04/2009
Affichages : 1656
Ceratium ranipes changing from Night morphology to Day morphology
 
 

Ceratium ranipes changing from Night morphology to Day morphology

Date : 13/04/2009
Affichages : 1772
Ceratium ranipes changing from Day to Nite morphologies
 
 

Ceratium ranipes changing from Day to Nite morphologies

Date : 13/04/2009
Affichages : 1624
Now Known as Cyttarocylis ampulla
 
 

Now Known as Cyttarocylis ampulla

The tintinnid now known as Cyttarocylis ampulla. Formerly known as distinct species in two genera of different families these are all the same species who simply makes different kinds of shells.

Date : 19/07/2013
Affichages : 1457
cyttarocylisdeepnetow31jan
 
 

cyttarocylisdeepnetow31jan

Cyttarocylis from a deep net tow (1000-300m) off Monaco on Jan 29 2019.

Date : 03/02/2019
Affichages : 347
Three from one sample
 
 
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Three from one sample

Three individuals of what is now known as Cyttarocylis ampulla all from the same sample taken during the Tara Oceans expedition (Station 70, West Coast of Africa).

Date : 19/07/2013
Affichages : 1566
Cyttarocylis ampulla types from Pt B
 
 

Cyttarocylis ampulla types from Pt B

Different individuals in samples from the Bay of Villefranche, November 15 & December 02 2013.

Date : 16/12/2013
Affichages : 1567
Cyttarocylis types from a single sample
 
 

Cyttarocylis types from a single sample

Specimens from a sample taken on Feb 3rd 2014 at Point B Rade de Villefranche.

Date : 07/03/2014
Affichages : 1451
Amundsen Sea Cymatocylis Morphotypes
 
 
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Amundsen Sea Cymatocylis Morphotypes

Date : 27/12/2014
Affichages : 1382
Parafavella gigantea
 
 

Parafavella gigantea

Different morphologies of the Arctic tintinnid Parafavella gigantea. All specimens from the same plankton net tow in the North Pacific.

Date : 14/02/2016
Affichages : 1166
Parafavella parumdentata Morphs from the Arctic in 2014
 
 
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Parafavella parumdentata Morphs from the Arctic in 2014

Date : 08/05/2016
Affichages : 1248
Parafavella gigantea in 2015 St P7
 
 
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Parafavella gigantea in 2015 St P7

A variety of forms in Parafavella gigantea from a station in the North Pacific (ARA06 st. P7) in 2015

Date : 24/05/2016
Affichages : 1076
Parafavella parumdentata from a single plankton net tow in the Arctic in July 2016
 
 

Parafavella parumdentata from a single plankton net tow in the Arctic in July 2016

Date : 12/11/2016
Affichages : 1210
Fig1.SalpinMajorTypesOnly2010St5
 
 

Fig1.SalpinMajorTypesOnly2010St5

Varieties of Salpingacantha from a 2015 sample in the ChukchiSea. In the sample, typical Salpingella acuminata(“a”) were dominant with 70 cells found for the 15 Salpingacanthacells encountered. The “b” most closely corresponds with S. crenulata,“c

Date : 08/10/2017
Affichages : 414
Fig2.Salpincantha2016St29
 
 

Fig2.Salpincantha2016St29

Varieties of Salpingacantha from a 2016 sample in the ChukchiSea (2016 St 29). In the sample no typical Salpingella acuminatawere found. In the conspectus of Kofoid & Campbell (1929)the form “a” most closely resembles S. ampla, “b” S. unguiculat

Date : 08/10/2017
Affichages : 409
Favella enhrenbergii forms from July 18 2016
 
 

Favella enhrenbergii forms from July 18 2016

Favella ehrenbergii variabilty

Date : 23/08/2016
Affichages : 403
Forms of Favella ehrenbergii from the Etang de THau
 
 
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Forms of Favella ehrenbergii from the Etang de THau

Date : 01/12/2012
Affichages : 501
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