Amphilonche elongata

Live speciman from a deep (275-225m) net tow at Pt C on Decmeber 2, 2020.

Amphibelone mirum (Popofsky 1904)

Amphibelone mirum (Popofsky 1904), living cell from a deep (275-225m) net tow on December 15 2020.

Lithoptera fenestrata (Müller 1858)

Live specimen, from the Bay of Villefranche, September 19 2012. Composite image of two focal planes showing the frame and interior spines of the skeleton.

Lithoptera fenestrata

Live specimen from the Bay of Villefranche on November 10 2014. Z-stack of images made using a 10x objective and DIC optics.

Lithoptera fenestra

Lithoptera fenestrata. Live specimen from the Bay of Villefranche on November2 2014. Z-stack of 19 images made using a 10x objective and DIC optics.

Snowflake - no two are exactly alike

Lithoptera fenestrata. Live specimen from the Bay of Villefranche on Sept 30 2014. Z-stack of 40 images made using a 10x objective and DIC optics.

Immature Lithoptera

Lithoptera fenestrata immature specimen found on November 17 2014. Lugol's-fixed , Z-stack of images made using a 20x objective and DIC optics

Baby Lithoptera

Lithoptera fenestrata immature specimen found on Sept 15 2014. Lugol's-fixed , Z-stack of images made using a 10x objective and DIC optics

Amphilonche

An Acantharian - Amphilonche sp. from the Bay of Villefranche in September 2014.

Amphilonche elongatum

Acanthostaurus purpurescens

Acanthostaurus purpurescens, an acantharian from the Bay of Villefranche in Sept 2014. According to Nori Suzuki, the ends of the spicules show signs of dissolution.

Star Radiolarian (Acantharian subclade F3a of Decelle et al. 2012)

Deep Water Acantharian

An 'F"3 clade species from a deep water (500 m) net tow on March 11 2016.

Diploconus fasces

Diploconus fasces from the Bay of Villefrancheon Sept 22 2014

Diploconus fasces

Diploconus fasces from the Bay of Villefranche on November 10 2014. Z-stack of images made of a Lugol's-fixed specimen using a 20x objective and DOC optics.

Astrolithium cruciatum

16xmicrostar

live cell on Feb 7 from Pt B

Xiphacantha murrayana Haeckel 1878

Johnannes Müller and Lithoptera fenestrata

Lithoptera fenestrata described by Johannes Müller (1858) from cells found in St. Tropez.

Plate 11 from Müller 1858

Drawings by the mentor (Johannes Müller) of the master (Ernst Haeckel)

Plate 5 from Müller 1858

Drawings by the mentor (Johannes Müller) of the master (Ernst Haeckel)

AcanLivingColorLastNansen

Acantharian in Living Color
An acantharian with obvious symbionts from a net tow at Pt C on Oct 11th, 2021. The last of the Nansen Net tows in the deep.