What exactly is the Tyndall effect? There appears to be a confusion on what the Tyndall effect actually is.
In every textbook in my native language (Polish) I have read, the 'Tyndall effect' is simply a name for a cone of light that arises when light passes through a colloid. As it is said to be independent of wavelength (contrary to Rayleigh scattering) and it happens for particles of roughly similar size to the wavelengths of visible light, it seems the underlying mechanism is suggested to be Mie scattering. The same description goes for Russian, German and French Wiki.


Meanwhile, English and Spanish Wiki tells that it is actually a phenomenon akin to Rayleigh scattering (that is, shorter wavelengths are scattered more), yet it concerns particles of similar size to the wavelengths indeed. Examples given are blue irises, exhaust smoke and opalescent glass.


So what actually the Tyndall effect is? If shorter wavelenghts are scattered more (the latter approach), then wouldn't it agree well with Rayleigh scattering mechanism? If not, then how is it different from Rayleigh scattering? And if it apparently occurs for particles of diameter comparable to the wavelength (as in Mie scattering), then why is blue light scattered more?

Edit: I shouldn't have referred only to Wikipedia in my question. My biggest concern is the discrepancy between the sources. He et al. (DOI: 10.1063/1.3068473) emphasize that Tyndall scattering arises for particles much larger than the wavelength (it is then independent of wavelength), whereas Flammer et al. in Basic Sciences in Ophthalmology point out that Tyndall effect is indeed light scattering due to submicroscopic particles. Yet I don't see why changing particle size would give two distinct phenomena (Rayleigh's & Tyndall's) if, according to the latter approach, you get Rayleigh-like dependence.
 A: Actually, as Wikipedia says,

Also known as Willis–Tyndall scattering, it is similar to Rayleigh scattering, in that the intensity of the scattered light is inversely proportional to the fourth power of the wavelength, so blue light is scattered much more strongly than red light.

The difference from Rayleigh scattering is that Tyndall's is scattering on colloidal particles, which have sizes on the order of the wavelength of light. This results in several specifics:


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*Total scattering cross section per particle is much larger

*Shape of a particle can play a considerable role in shaping the differential cross-section

*Actual total scattering cross section isn't always proportional to $\lambda^{-4}$ as it always is in the Rayleigh regime: it's more complicated (image source):



Here you can see that in smaller-particle colloids (iris of the eye, milk) you get Rayleigh-like dependence on particle size relative to wavelength, while for larger-particle ones (cumulus clouds) you get less dependence. In colloids with intermediate-sized particles or with simply large range of sizes you can even get not-well-defined dependence on wavelength: e.g., in iridescent clouds.
A: Scattering as the name suggests happens when the light is scattered due to particles. Now depending on the wavelength of light scattered and size of the particles which scatter the light, you can have Rayleigh or Tyndall scattering. 
Tyndall scattering happens due to colloidal particle.
And, Rayleigh due to atmospheric particles.
