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Métamorphes Microscopic Shape Shifters
 
Métamorphes microscopique du plancton
 
Date : 19/07/2013
 
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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 : 5489
 
 
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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 : 5384
 
 
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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 : 5248
 
 
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Ceratium ranipes changing from Night morphology to Day morphology
 
Date : 13/04/2009
 
Affichages : 5526
 
 
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Ceratium ranipes changing from Day to Nite morphologies
 
Date : 13/04/2009
 
Affichages : 5381
 
 
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Ceratium candelabrum morphological variability
 
Ceratium candelabrum - cells from a clonal culture. Colored SEM elecronmicrographs.
 
Date : 29/06/2013
 
Affichages : 3224
 
 
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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 : 4470
 
 
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cyttarocylisdeepnetow31jan
 
Cyttarocylis from a deep net tow (1000-300m) off Monaco on Jan 29 2019.
 
Date : 03/02/2019
 
Affichages : 3758
 
 
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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 : 5057
 
 
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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 : 5183
 
 
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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 : 5038
 
 
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Amundsen Sea Cymatocylis Morphotypes
 
Date : 27/12/2014
 
Affichages : 4721
 
 
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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 : 4575
 
 
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Parafavella parumdentata Morphs from the Arctic in 2014
 
Date : 08/05/2016
 
Affichages : 4680
 
 
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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 : 4499
 
 
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Parafavella parumdentata from a single plankton net tow in the Arctic in July 2016
 
Date : 12/11/2016
 
Affichages : 4825
 
 
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Varieties of Salpingacantha from a 2015 sample in the Chukchi Sea
 
Varieties of Salpingacantha from a 2015 sample in the Chukchi Sea.
 
Date : 08/10/2017
 
Affichages : 3910
 
 
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Varieties of Salpingacantha from a 2016 sample in the Chukchi Sea
 
Varieties of Salpingacantha from a 2016 sample in the Chukchi Sea
 
Date : 08/10/2017
 
Affichages : 3900
 
 
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Favella enhrenbergii forms from July 18 2016
 
Favella ehrenbergii variabilty
 
Date : 23/08/2016
 
Affichages : 3810
 
 
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Forms of Favella ehrenbergii from the Etang de THau
 
Date : 01/12/2012
 
Affichages : 4028
 
 
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Acanthostomell norvegica from a single sample (Chukchi Sea 2017, Station 34)
 
Acanthostomell norvegica from a single sample (Chukchi Sea 2017, Station 34)
 
Date : 12/09/2021
 
Affichages : 3098
 
 
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Morphological variability of Ptychocylis obtusa found in a single sample
 
Morphological variability of Ptychocylis obtusa found in a single sample
 
Date : 12/09/2021
 
Affichages : 3066
 
 
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Ceratium platycorne SEM micrograph
 
Date : 07/05/2010
 
Affichages : 3521
 
 
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