Tintinnoinea

By Viviana A. Alder

This chapter 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 Southwestern Atlantic
Ti. 8 Abundance patterns
Ti. 9 Vertical distribution
Ti. 10 Taxonomy
Ti. 11 Identification of the taxa
Ti. 12 Selected synonymic references for the taxa treated
Ti. 13 Selected synonymic references for the taxa treated (Part 1: A-E)
Ti. 14 Selected synonymic references for the taxa treated (Part 2: E-X)
Ti. 15 Classification scheme based on morphologically similar groups of species
Ti. 16 Suggested reading

Identification
To identify tintinnids to genus level, go to Page 87: Tintinnoinea of the key; from there the identification to species has to be performed by comparing the diagnosis of the species within the genus found.

Species and higher taxa
See the page for Suborder Tintinnoinea (and following pages) in the Higher taxa module for tintinnid taxa down to genera. On this page a list of South Atlantic tintinnids species is also available.

For the tintinnid species, subspecies and forms, see Codonella galea to Xystonellopsis pulchra in the Species module (155 pages).