Paulette's Plankton

Please note: images on this page belong to Paulette Brunner. Please do not use them without consulting her. They were taken many years ago using Rheinberg illumination (in most cases) and a flash photomicroscope. The flash allowed her to freeze motion in ciliated or muscular larvae. In Rheinberg illumination, a colored stop (in this case blue) is placed near the condenser aperture with a diameter such that all the light passing directly from condenser to objective is one color; light from the periphery of the condenser, which would miss the objective in the absence of a specimen, is another color (in this case white) and changes its path due to the refractive, reflective, or light-scattering properties of the specimen such that it enters the objective. Most of these are marine plankton, and some are freshwater.

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Algae, thumbnail link to larger image in new window.

Algae
(Paulette Brunner)

Ascidian, thumbnail link to larger image in new window.

Ascidian tadpole
(Paulette Brunner)

Ascidian, thumbnail link to larger image in new window.

Ascidian juvenile
(Paulette Brunner)

bipinnaria1, thumbnail link to larger image in new window.

Bipinnaria (starfish larva)
(Paulette Brunner)

cladoceran, thumbnail link to larger image in new window.

Cladoceran #1
(Paulette Brunner)

bipinnaria1, thumbnail link to larger image in new window.

Cladoceran #2
(Paulette Brunner)

 
copepod, thumbnail link to larger image in new window.

Copepod #1
(Paulette Brunner)

copepod, thumbnail link to larger image in new window.

Copepod #2
(Paulette Brunner)

copepod, thumbnail link to larger image in new window.

Copepod #3
(Paulette Brunner)

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Ctenophore, thumbnail link to larger image in new window.

Ctenophore
(Paulette Brunner)

cyprid, thumbnail link to larger image in new window.

Cyprid (barnacle larva)
(Paulette Brunner)

diatoms, thumbnail link to larger image in new window.

Diatoms
(Paulette Brunner)

fish, thumbnail link to larger image in new window.

Fish larva
(Paulette Brunner)

flatworm, thumbnail link to larger image in new window.

Flatworm
(Paulette Brunner)

hydroid, thumbnail link to larger image in new window.

Hydroid
(Paulette Brunner)

isopod, thumbnail link to larger image in new window.

Isopod
(Paulette Brunner)

medusa, thumbnail link to larger image in new window.

Medusa
(Paulette Brunner)

mitraria, thumbnail link to larger image in new window.

Mitraria (Owenia larva)
(Paulette Brunner)

 
nauplius, thumbnail link to larger image in new window.

Nauplius (barnacle larva)
(Paulette Brunner)

noctiluca, thumbnail link to larger image in new window.

Noctiluca
(Paulette Brunner)

pluteus, thumbnail link to larger image in new window.

Pluteus (sea urchin larva)
(Paulette Brunner)

polychaete, thumbnail link to larger image in new window.

Polychaete #1
(Paulette Brunner)

polychaete, thumbnail link to larger image in new window.

Polychaete #2
(Paulette Brunner)

polychaete, thumbnail link to larger image in new window.

Polychaete #3
(Paulette Brunner)

rotifer, thumbnail link to larger image in new window.

Rotifer
(Paulette Brunner)

setiger, thumbnail link to larger image in new window.

Setiger (polychaete larva) #1
(Paulette Brunner)

setiger, thumbnail link to larger image in new window.

Setiger (polychaete larva) #2
(Paulette Brunner)

setiger, thumbnail link to larger image in new window.

Setiger (polychaete larva) #3
(Paulette Brunner)

setiger, thumbnail link to larger image in new window.

Setiger (polychaete larva) #4
(Paulette Brunner)

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setiger, thumbnail link to larger image in new window.

Setiger (polychaete larva) #5
(Paulette Brunner)

 
setiger, thumbnail link to larger image in new window.

Setiger (polychaete larva) #6
(Paulette Brunner)

setiger, thumbnail link to larger image in new window.

Setiger (polychaete larva) #7
(Paulette Brunner)

veliger, thumbnail link to larger image in new window.

Veliger (gastropod larva)
(Paulette Brunner)

zoea, thumbnail link to larger image in new window.

Zoea (decapod larva) #1
(Paulette Brunner)

zoea, thumbnail link to larger image in new window.

Zoea (decapod larva) #2
(Paulette Brunner)

zoea, thumbnail link to larger image in new window.

Zoea (decapod larva) #3
(Paulette Brunner)


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