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Original illustration from Laackmann 1908
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The unbearable lightness of a tintinnid lorica. The ciliate cell is the brown cup-shaped body in the top third. This specimen is from the waters off Rapa Nui in the South West Pacific. The lorica is about 400 microns long.
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Helicostomella subulata specimen from Scripps Canyon area (Southern California) in July 2009.
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Specimen from the Bay of Villefranche (43°41’10’’ N, 7°19’00’’ E).
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Specimen from Sète, France.
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Lugol's-fixed specimen collected June 28 2010 from the Bay Villefranche.
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Specimen from the Bay of Villefranche (43°41’10’’ N, 7°19’00’’ E) in Oct 2010, Lugol's-fixed.
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This is a tintinnid ciliate found commonly in coastal waters of Europe and elsewhere. It is a plankton ciliate. The shell or lorica which contains the ciliate cell is about 150 microns long
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Metacylis mediterranea: Lugol's-fixed specimen collected June 28 2010 from the Bay Villefranche (43°41’10’’ N, 7°19’00’’ E).
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Lugols-fixed specimen from the Bay of Villefranche on June 29 2010
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Metacylis mediterranea From the Ganges River Estuary. St Ganga Jan 2013.
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Metacylis vitreoides from the Chukchi Sea (Arctic) in 2012. Only 2 individuals were found in all the samples from 2012 and none in 2011 samples. This large species was first described from the Barents Sea by Meunier and then by Ostenfeld from the Greenland Sea only to be finally be re-named by Kofoid & Campbell (1929). It is rarely seen.
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Specimen from the Bay of Vilefranche in Oct 2010, Lugol's-fixed. Images taken with a 20x objective & complied with Helico Focus
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Specimen from the Scripp's Canyon area in July 2009
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Specimen from Scripps Canyon area in July 2009
