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Somatic dikinetids, when singly ciliated , usually with anterior kinetosome ciliated ; left serial oral polykinetids used to locomote and feed ; alveolar membrane system poorly developed; many species contractile ; cytopyge present; contractile-vacuolar system with collecting canals and large collecting vacuole or absent; some species are pigmented , often brightly , with pigment in specialized pigmentocysts ; seven families . 414 CILIOPHORA, HETEROTRICHEA 1. Always loricate ; bear serial oral po 1'. If loricate , body n 2. Single somatic kinety surface; body dorso ............... ... 2' . Somatic kineties ev surfaces ; if compr but laterally ..... Fremiet , 1937 . aloricate; contracti 3'. Body shape otherwise 4. Body lateral spindle-shaped ; not . . . . . . . . . . 4'. Body shape otherwise 5. Body large , sle contractile; oral ca ~ 5'. Oral cavity deeper w roestensis , top . (from Uhlig , 1964) 6. Serial oral polykine margin ; peristomal paroral cilia .. ... 6'. Serial left oral pol peristomal field ...
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Somatic dikinetids, when singly ciliated , usually with anterior kinetosome ciliated ; left serial oral polykinetids used to locomote and feed ; alveolar membrane system poorly developed; many species contractile ; cytopyge present; contractile-vacuolar system with collecting canals and large collecting vacuole or absent; some species are pigmented , often brightly , with pigment in specialized pigmentocysts ; seven families . 414 CILIOPHORA, HETEROTRICHEA 1. Always loricate ; bear serial oral po 1'. If loricate , body n 2. Single somatic kinety surface; body dorso ............... ... 2' . Somatic kineties ev surfaces ; if compr but laterally ..... Fremiet , 1937 . aloricate; contracti 3'. Body shape otherwise 4. Body lateral spindle-shaped ; not . . . . . . . . . . 4'. Body shape otherwise 5. Body large , sle contractile; oral ca ~ 5'. Oral cavity deeper w roestensis , top . (from Uhlig , 1964) 6. Serial oral polykine margin ; peristomal paroral cilia .. ... 6'. Serial left oral pol peristomal field ...