http://gallery.obs-vlfr.fr/gallery2/main.php First drawings date back to 1779 http://gallery.obs-vlfr.fr/gallery2/v/Aquaparadox/Tins/Intro/FirstTinDepictMuller1779.jpg.html 104854 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. Tintinnid Morphology: Tintinnopsis campanula by Fauré-Fremiet http://gallery.obs-vlfr.fr/gallery2/v/Aquaparadox/Tins/Intro/Faure_FremietTspCamp.jpg.html 82085 Feeding Currents http://gallery.obs-vlfr.fr/gallery2/v/Aquaparadox/Tins/Intro/FeedingCurrentsEutinInquilinus.jpg.html 103898 Depiction of feeding current in Eutintinnus inquilinus by Fauré-Fremiet. Life history stages of a tintinnid, Eutintinnus inquilinus http://gallery.obs-vlfr.fr/gallery2/v/Aquaparadox/Tins/Intro/EutinPlateColor.jpg.html 82088 Plate 30 from Ehrenberg 1838 http://gallery.obs-vlfr.fr/gallery2/v/Aquaparadox/Tins/Intro/Plate30Ehrenberg1838.jpg.html 104664 In Ehrenberg's 1838 catalogue of Infusoria he recognized only two species of tintinnid ciliates. Haeckel 1873! http://gallery.obs-vlfr.fr/gallery2/v/Aquaparadox/Tins/Intro/1873HaeckelPlates.jpg.html 108677 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. Why have a lorica or shell? http://gallery.obs-vlfr.fr/gallery2/v/Aquaparadox/Tins/Intro/LoricaAsArmor.jpg.html 82091 Dinoflagellate attacking a tintinnid http://gallery.obs-vlfr.fr/gallery2/v/Aquaparadox/Tins/Intro/DinoFdgTIntinnopsis.jpg.html 104667 A heterotrophic Dinoflagellate trying to eat a Tintinnopsis cylindrica. Tintinnids as food for first-feeding herring larvae. http://gallery.obs-vlfr.fr/gallery2/v/Aquaparadox/Tins/Intro/HardySketch.jpg.html 103895 Tintinnids in the food web of herring. From Hardy 1965 "The Open Sea: Its Natural History" Tintinnids in the plankton food web http://gallery.obs-vlfr.fr/gallery2/v/Aquaparadox/Tins/Intro/TintinnidConoverWeb.jpg.html 82094 Biodiversity in the Plankton http://gallery.obs-vlfr.fr/gallery2/v/Aquaparadox/Tins/Intro/1l25tins10spp.jpg.html 94397 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. Kofoid 1930 plate http://gallery.obs-vlfr.fr/gallery2/v/Aquaparadox/Tins/Intro/Kofoid1930plate.jpg.html 102991 Art Deco? Some species have loricas covered with the coccoliths of coccolithophorid algae very precisely arranged. Morphological diversity in about 75 liters http://gallery.obs-vlfr.fr/gallery2/v/Aquaparadox/Tins/Intro/smallfileautocolorcontrastDec4Plate.jpg.html 103916 Different forms found from sampling at 30 m depth on December 4 2017.