Tintinnoinea

. ALDER, V.A.

Zooplankton of the South Atlantic Ocean

ETI Bioinformatics

Lugar: Amsterdam; Año: 2005; p. 1 - 16

.Tintinnids are lorica-building, planktonic oligotrichid ciliates ranging in size from 20 to 200 µm. They constitute a major component of the microzooplankton in most marine environment. They can also be important occasionally in estuarine and brackish waters. Short generation times, high abundances, and fast reproduction rates, coupled with high grazing impact, enhance the importance of tintinnids as a key trophic link between the microbial and the metazoan compartmentsThe Chapter Tintinnoinea encompasses 158 species of South Atlantic tintinnids, which are lorica-building, planktonic oligotrichid ciliates(Phylum Ciliophora).Contents. Ti. 1 Introduction. Ti. 2 Morphologic outline. Ti. 3 Feeding. Ti. 4 Reproduction. Ti. 5 Methods. Ti. 6 Geographic worldwide patterns. Ti. 7 Geographic patterns in the SouthwesternAtlantic. Ti. 8 Abundance patterns. Ti. 9 Vertical distribution. Ti. 10 Taxonomy. Ti. 11 Identification of the taxa. Ti. 12 Selected synonymic references for the taxatreated. Ti. 13 Selected synonymic references for the taxatreated (Part 1: A-E). Ti. 14 Selected synonymic references for the taxatreated (Part 2: E-X). Ti. 15 Classification scheme based onmorphologically similar groups of species. Ti. 16 Suggested reading