Protozoa Guide review

TERMITOPHRYIDAE

family / SESSILIDA / TERMITOPHRYIDAE

Description

Oral cavity sunken with elongate , deep infundibulum in which oral ciliature makes five helical turns ; scapula with immobile cilia producing a thick cushion-like fixation apparatus ; endosymbionts of termites of the Subfamily Apicotermitinae ; one genus

Type species

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Oral cavity sunken with elongate , deep
infundibulum in which oral ciliature makes five
helical turns ; scapula with immobile cilia
producing a thick cushion-like fixation apparatus ;
endosymbionts of termites of the Subfamily
Apicotermitinae ; one genus