Wintertime meso-scale horizontal distribution of large tintinnids in the southern Yellow Sea

• Published in: Chinese journal of oceanology and limnology Vol. 27; no. 1; pp. 31 - 37
• Main Author: 张翠霞 张武昌 肖天 吕瑞华 孙松 宋微波
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Heidelberg SP Science Press 01.02.2009; Springer Nature B.V; Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing100049, China%Key Laboratory of Marine Ecology and Environmental Science, Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao 266071, China; Laboratory of Protozoology, KML, Ocean University of China, Qingdao 266003, China%Key Laboratory of Marine Ecology and Environmental Science, Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao 266071, China%Key Laboratory for Science and Engineering of Marine Ecology and Environment, SOA, First Institute of Oceanography, SOA, Qingdao 266061, China%Laboratory of Protozoology, KML, Ocean University of China, Qingdao 266003, China; Key Laboratory of Marine Ecology and Environmental Science, Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao 266071, China
• Subjects: Codonellopsis; Distribution patterns; Earth and Environmental Science; Earth Sciences; Eutintinnus; Geographical distribution; Horizontal distribution; Leprotintinnus; Marine; Oceanography; Parafavella; Spatial distribution; Stenosemella; Tintinnopsis; 中尺度; 南黄海; 太平洋; 水平分布; 空间分布; 羊肚菌; 黄海暖流; Yellow Sea; INW, Huanghai Sea; tintinnid; southern Yellow Sea; horizontal distribution
• ISSN: 0254-4059; 2096-5508; 1993-5005; 2523-3521
• DOI: 10.1007/s00343-009-0031-1

Spatial distribution of some large tintinnid species （nominally 〉 76 μm） is investigated on samples vertically towed in the southern Yellow Sea in winters of 2001 to 2004. Nine tintinnid species are recorded： Codonellopsis morchella, Stenosemella pacifica, S. steini, Tintinnopsis schotti, T. radix, T. karajacensis, Eutintinnus tenuis, Parafavella sp., Leprotintinnus neriticus, of which C. morchella and T. radix dominated in the warm tongue-shaped zone of the Yellow Sea Warm Current （YSWC）, and S. pacifica is the next in abundance. Our study shows that these tintinnids occur repeatedly in certain special distribution patterns.