Xystonella Brandt 1906

Data from Dolan, J.R., Pierce, R.W. 2012. Diversity and Distributions of Tintinnid Ciliates. in Biology and Ecology of Tintinnid Ciliates: Models for Marine Plankton, Dolan, J.R., Agatha, S., Coats, D.W., Montagnes, D.J.S., Stocker, D.K. (eds). Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, pp 214-243

Drawing from original description in Daday 1887, Plate 21, Fig. 1

From the Bay of Villefranche on May 2 2018

Tintinnid Ciliate found in the Mediterranean Sea in off shore waters. The cell is the dark matter inside the lorica or shell. Total length is about 300 microns.

Specimen from the Bay of Villefranche