http://gallery.obs-vlfr.fr/gallery2/main.php Métamorphes Microscopic Shape Shifters http://gallery.obs-vlfr.fr/gallery2/v/Aquaparadox/metamorphes/Me__tamorphes.jpg.html 97603 Métamorphes microscopique du plancton Ceratium ranipes Morphological Cycle http://gallery.obs-vlfr.fr/gallery2/v/Aquaparadox/metamorphes/CeratRanipMorphCycle.jpg.html 97675 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. Shifting to day morphology http://gallery.obs-vlfr.fr/gallery2/v/Aquaparadox/metamorphes/M-D+pixs+fingrowingIndiv.jpg.html 97618 Ceratium ranipes growing it fingers in the early morning. 'T' shows the number of minutes from dawn. Shifting to Night Morphology http://gallery.obs-vlfr.fr/gallery2/v/Aquaparadox/metamorphes/M-D+pixs+fingr+formIndiv.jpg.html 97615 Ceratium ranipes absorbing fingers in the early evening. 'T' shows the number of minutes from sundown Ceratium ranipes changing from Night morphology to Day morphology http://gallery.obs-vlfr.fr/gallery2/v/Aquaparadox/metamorphes/Cr_Night_to_Day.jpg.html 97607 Ceratium ranipes changing from Day to Nite morphologies http://gallery.obs-vlfr.fr/gallery2/v/Aquaparadox/metamorphes/Cr_Day_to_Nite.jpg.html 97610 Ceratium candelabrum morphological variability http://gallery.obs-vlfr.fr/gallery2/v/Aquaparadox/metamorphes/CeratCandySEMplate.jpg.html 106740 Ceratium candelabrum - cells from a clonal culture. Colored SEM elecronmicrographs. Now Known as Cyttarocylis ampulla http://gallery.obs-vlfr.fr/gallery2/v/Aquaparadox/metamorphes/CyttaroPetaloAsMetamorphs.jpg.html 97613 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. cyttarocylisdeepnetow31jan http://gallery.obs-vlfr.fr/gallery2/v/Aquaparadox/metamorphes/cyttarocylisdeepnetow31jan.jpg.html 104881 Cyttarocylis from a deep net tow (1000-300m) off Monaco on Jan 29 2019. Three from one sample http://gallery.obs-vlfr.fr/gallery2/v/Aquaparadox/metamorphes/TaraSt70Cyttarospp.jpg.html 97621 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). Cyttarocylis ampulla types from Pt B http://gallery.obs-vlfr.fr/gallery2/v/Aquaparadox/metamorphes/Nov15PtBtypesCyttaro.jpg.html 97782 Different individuals in samples from the Bay of Villefranche, November 15 & December 02 2013. Cyttarocylis types from a single sample http://gallery.obs-vlfr.fr/gallery2/v/Aquaparadox/metamorphes/PtBfeb3morphs.jpg.html 98608 Specimens from a sample taken on Feb 3rd 2014 at Point B Rade de Villefranche. Amundsen Sea Cymatocylis Morphotypes http://gallery.obs-vlfr.fr/gallery2/v/Aquaparadox/metamorphes/AmundsenCymatocylisMorphotypes.jpg.html 100807 Parafavella gigantea http://gallery.obs-vlfr.fr/gallery2/v/Aquaparadox/metamorphes/ParafavellaGiganteaPlate.jpg.html 102952 Different morphologies of the Arctic tintinnid Parafavella gigantea. All specimens from the same plankton net tow in the North Pacific. Parafavella parumdentata Morphs from the Arctic in 2014 http://gallery.obs-vlfr.fr/gallery2/v/Aquaparadox/metamorphes/ParafavellaParumdentataMorphsArctic2014.jpg.html 103069 Parafavella gigantea in 2015 St P7 http://gallery.obs-vlfr.fr/gallery2/v/Aquaparadox/metamorphes/ParafavellaGigantea16x2015StP7.jpg.html 103096 A variety of forms in Parafavella gigantea from a station in the North Pacific (ARA06 st. P7) in 2015 Parafavella parumdentata from a single plankton net tow in the Arctic in July 2016 http://gallery.obs-vlfr.fr/gallery2/v/Aquaparadox/metamorphes/Parafavella_parum_St2_2016.jpg.html 103286 Varieties of Salpingacantha from a 2015 sample in the Chukchi Sea http://gallery.obs-vlfr.fr/gallery2/v/Aquaparadox/metamorphes/Fig1_SalpinMajorTypesOnly2010St5.jpg.html 104884 Varieties of Salpingacantha from a 2015 sample in the Chukchi Sea. Varieties of Salpingacantha from a 2016 sample in the Chukchi Sea http://gallery.obs-vlfr.fr/gallery2/v/Aquaparadox/metamorphes/Fig2_Salpincantha2016St29.jpg.html 104887 Varieties of Salpingacantha from a 2016 sample in the Chukchi Sea Favella enhrenbergii forms from July 18 2016 http://gallery.obs-vlfr.fr/gallery2/v/Aquaparadox/metamorphes/FavellaJuly18.jpg.html 104890 Favella ehrenbergii variabilty Forms of Favella ehrenbergii from the Etang de THau http://gallery.obs-vlfr.fr/gallery2/v/Aquaparadox/metamorphes/FavellaFormsSeteExp.jpg.html 104893 Acanthostomell norvegica from a single sample (Chukchi Sea 2017, Station 34) http://gallery.obs-vlfr.fr/gallery2/v/Aquaparadox/metamorphes/Fig5Acanth2017St3432x.tif.html 106720 Acanthostomell norvegica from a single sample (Chukchi Sea 2017, Station 34) Morphological variability of Ptychocylis obtusa found in a single sample http://gallery.obs-vlfr.fr/gallery2/v/Aquaparadox/metamorphes/Fig6Ptycho2014St9First18cells.tif.html 106724 Morphological variability of Ptychocylis obtusa found in a single sample Ceratium platycorne SEM micrograph http://gallery.obs-vlfr.fr/gallery2/v/Aquaparadox/metamorphes/CeratiumPlatycorneSEM.jpg.html 106743