Protozoa Guide review

PERITROMIDAE

family / HETEROTRICHIDA / PERITROMIDAE

Description

Body dorso-ventrally compressed; single kinety on slightly convex dorsal surface ; spine-like cilia of dorsal kinetids emerging (from wart -I ike papillae; left serial oral polykinetids extending anteriorly (from equatorial oral cavity along anterior border of cell; single genus .

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Body dorso-ventrally compressed; single kinety
on slightly convex dorsal surface ; spine-like cilia
of dorsal kinetids emerging (from wart -I ike
papillae; left serial oral polykinetids extending
anteriorly (from equatorial oral cavity along
anterior border of cell; single genus .