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First drawings date back to 1779
 
First depiction of a tintinnid in 1779 (Müller 1779).Müller, O.F. (1779) Zoologia danica seu animalium Daniae et Norvegiae rariorum ac minus notorum descriptiones et historia 2. Weygandinis, Havniae et Lipsiae.
 
Date : 25/01/2019
 
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Tintinnid Morphology: Tintinnopsis campanula by Fauré-Fremiet
 
Date : 25/10/2011
 
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Feeding Currents
 
Depiction of feeding current in Eutintinnus inquilinus by Fauré-Fremiet.
 
Date : 26/11/2017
 
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Life history stages of a tintinnid, Eutintinnus inquilinus
 
Date : 16/01/2012
 
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Plate 30 from Ehrenberg 1838
 
In Ehrenberg's 1838 catalogue of Infusoria he recognized only two species of tintinnid ciliates.
 
Date : 25/10/2018
 
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Haeckel 1873!
 
The plates from the first article devoted to tintinnid ciliates: Haeckel, E. 1873. Ueber einige pelagische Infusorien. Jenaische Zeitschrift für Medizin und Naturwissenschaft, 7:561-568.
 
Date : 06/01/2024
 
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Why have a lorica or shell?
 
Date : 08/09/2011
 
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Dinoflagellate attacking a tintinnid
 
A heterotrophic Dinoflagellate trying to eat a Tintinnopsis cylindrica.
 
Date : 25/10/2018
 
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Tintinnids as food for first-feeding herring larvae.
 
Tintinnids in the food web of herring.  From Hardy 1965 "The Open Sea: Its Natural History"
 
Date : 26/11/2017
 
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Tintinnids in the plankton food web
 
Date : 17/11/2011
 
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Biodiversity in the Plankton
 
Biodiversity in the Marine Plankton - Tintinnid ciliates are excellent models to study biodiversity.  A single liter of seawater may contain only 25 tintinnids but of 10 different species.
 
Date : 15/04/2012
 
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Kofoid 1930 plate
 
Art Deco? Some species have loricas covered with the coccoliths of coccolithophorid algae very precisely arranged.
 
Date : 15/03/2016
 
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