Dadayiella Kofoid & Campbell 1929

Specimen from the central med.

Lugol's-fixed specimen from the Bay of Villefranche in Jan. 2011

From the Indian Ocean collected during the Tara Oceans Expedition at Station 58, DCM, image using 60x objective

The bulb-bottomed morph of D. ganymedes from the Bay of Villefranche

Illustration from the original description of Dadayeilla ganymedes by Géza Entz Sr. in 1884. Micron bar based on the text description of the mouth diameter as 0.03 mm

Dadayiella is genus of widespread species. Data shown are from Dolan, J.R., Pierce, R.W. 2013. 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.

Illustration from the original description of Dadayeilla ganymedes by Géza Entz Sr. in 1884. Micron bar based on the text description of the mouth diameter as 0.03 mm

Specimen from the central Med. sampled in 2008 during the Boum cruise.