Description
Body tapering to rounded posterior ; paroral composed of kinetosomal triplets ; known only from saltmarsh habitats (Fig . 20) . Corl iss, 1979) B. F. salina, oral detail. (from T uff ra u , 19 68 ) 420 CILIOPHORA, SPJROTRICHEA CLASS SPIROTRIC The cil have somatic dik or both k polykinetids . conspicuous righ ciliature , with (usually clockwi around a broad a left margins ("undulating mem along the right cytostome is dee others . The bod nearly devoid of others are not; substrate or not Dorsal surface showing a porti on of argyrome. (from NOTE: Molecular Augustin e and Foissner, 1992) Subclasses Choreotrichia, belong to a mono SPIROTRICHEA (se ships of several spirotrichs (Sma been tested by m following as SPIROTRICHEA: Odontostomatida, Phacodiniida . A KEY TO 1. Nuclear app nuclei surrounding six left ser kineties . . . . . . 1'. Nuclear appa typically si 2. A replication macronucleu 2'. Replication 3. Left seri encircl in closed) ; monokineti HEA Butschli , 1889 iates of the Class Spirotrichea may inetids usually with the ante rior inetosomes ciliated or somatic Generally, these ciliates have t and left oral and/or preoral left serial oral polykinetids lead ing se into the oral cavity , eithe r nterior end or along anterior and of the body) . Polykinetids branes") may also be presen t side of the oral region . The p in some groups and shallow i n y is ciliated in some groups, but cilia in others . Some are loricate , the lorica may be attached to . Five subclasses and four orders evolution studies suggest that the Protocruziidia , Hypotrichia , Stichotrichia , and Oligotrichi a phyletic group here called the Class e Lynn , 1996). The relat ion- orders , prev iously considered ll and Lynn , 1985) , have not yet olecular studies. Here we rank the sedis mutabilis in the Class
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Body tapering to rounded posterior ; paroral
composed of kinetosomal triplets ; known only from
saltmarsh habitats (Fig . 20) .
Corl iss, 1979) B. F. salina, oral detail. (from T uff ra u ,
19 68 )
420 CILIOPHORA, SPJROTRICHEA
CLASS SPIROTRIC
The cil
have somatic dik
or both k
polykinetids .
conspicuous righ
ciliature , with
(usually clockwi
around a broad a
left margins
("undulating mem
along the right
cytostome is dee
others . The bod
nearly devoid of
others are not;
substrate or not
Dorsal surface showing a porti on of argyrome. (from NOTE: Molecular
Augustin e and Foissner, 1992) Subclasses
Choreotrichia,
belong to a mono
SPIROTRICHEA (se
ships of several
spirotrichs (Sma
been tested by m
following as
SPIROTRICHEA:
Odontostomatida,
Phacodiniida .
A KEY TO
1.
Nuclear app
nuclei
surrounding
six left ser
kineties
. . . . . .
1'. Nuclear appa
typically si
2. A replication
macronucleu
2'. Replication
3. Left seri
encircl in
closed) ;
monokineti
HEA Butschli , 1889
iates of the Class Spirotrichea may
inetids usually with the ante rior
inetosomes ciliated or somatic
Generally, these ciliates have
t and left oral and/or preoral
left serial oral polykinetids lead ing
se into the oral cavity , eithe r
nterior end or along anterior and
of the body) . Polykinetids
branes") may also be presen t
side of the oral region . The
p in some groups and shallow i n
y is ciliated in some groups, but
cilia in others . Some are loricate ,
the lorica may be attached to
. Five subclasses and four orders
evolution studies suggest that the
Protocruziidia , Hypotrichia ,
Stichotrichia , and Oligotrichi a
phyletic group here called the Class
e Lynn , 1996). The relat ion-
orders , prev iously considered
ll and Lynn , 1985) , have not yet
olecular studies. Here we rank the
sedis mutabilis in the Class