Protozoa Guide review

ASTYLOZOIDAE

family / SESSILIDA / ASTYLOZOIDAE

Description

Free -swimming; with rigid aboral bristles or short caudal cilia arising from scapula ; no ciliated telotrochal band ; swim with oral end forward ; two genera. 1. With several girdles of spines about body .. .. .. .. .. .. ............. ........................... .................. Hastatel 1'. No spines ; body bell-shaped ............ .Asty/ozoon

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Free -swimming; with rigid aboral bristles or
short caudal cilia arising from scapula ; no ciliated
telotrochal band ; swim with oral end forward ; two
genera.
1. With several girdles of spines about body .. .. .. .. .. ..
............. ........................... .................. Hastatel
1'. No spines ; body bell-shaped ............ .Asty/ozoon