EUPLOTIDAE EHRENBERG , 1838 may extend into the oral cavity where t

Description

accompany a smaller number of oral poly Body more dorso-ventrally compressed ; at least restricted to the inner oral cavity ; o or more left marginal c irri ; ventrally-oriented to locomote and feed (some species are oral cavity ; distinct, contiguous , left-serial oral most are plankton ic; no cytoproct ; tw polykinetids on colla r and lapel ; paroral as NOTE: Figures for this subclass are fro polykinetid on right of oral area; caudal cirr i , (1969) or, if of Protargol-stained spec ventral ; macronucleus more or less C-shaped ; one from Brownlee (1977) unless otherwise i genus. [Borrow and Hill (1995) recognized four genera in this family] . Key to Orders and Suborders of t

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accompany a smaller number of oral poly
Body more dorso-ventrally compressed ; at least restricted to the inner oral cavity ; o
or more left marginal c irri ; ventrally-oriented to locomote and feed (some species are
oral cavity ; distinct, contiguous , left-serial oral most are plankton ic; no cytoproct ; tw
polykinetids on colla r and lapel ; paroral as NOTE: Figures for this subclass are fro
polykinetid on right of oral area; caudal cirr i , (1969) or, if of Protargol-stained spec
ventral ; macronucleus more or less C-shaped ; one from Brownlee (1977) unless otherwise i
genus. [Borrow and Hill (1995) recognized four
genera in this family] . Key to Orders and Suborders of t