Oxytricha Bory de Saint-Vincent in
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Lamouroux, Bory de Saint-Vincent and Deslongchamps, 1824 Or Body flexible ; paroral and endoral slightly curved typically w with paroral crossing over endoral at about its ventral "la middle; two pretransverse ventral cirri ; four or number and more transverse cirri; caudal cirri, dorsal (Fig . girdles, an 77) . di- , or po replication during cell NOTE: Molec sequences , oligotrichs is corrobor this subcla transferred ,, , . KEY ,, , , 1. Somatic long), , ' ..'' - .. . ' cilia . 1'. Circumf ... , '• •• A c ·. with sh encircl Dorsal surface. C. Oxytrichia granulifera , ventral view. From Berger and Foissner (1987). Somatic long) , oft body small, With c 1. Bris equato SUBCLASS OLIGOTRICHIA BOtschli, 1887 al polykinetids forming an open circle, ith an anterior "collar" and a more pel"; somatic kineties reduced in variable in pattern , forming bristles , d spirals ; somatic kinetids as mono- , lykinetids ; no lorica; most plankton ic ; band(s) traverse the macronucleus division ; two orders. ular characters (e.g ., SSrRNA Lynn and Sogin , 1988) suggest that the arise within the stichotrichs . If this ated by sequences from other genera, ss should be abandoned and the orders to the Subclass Stichotrichia. TO THE ORDERS IN THE CLASS b 9 <9 e? kinetids with long cilia (i.e., > 10 ~m often cirrus-like "bristles" or st i ff . .. ...... ...... .... ........ ..... ... .... .. .. .... Halteriida erential or girdle kinety of dikinetids ort cilia (i.e., < 5 ~m long), typically ing the body but may spiral towards or ...... ... .. .. .. ... ...... ......... ..Strombidiida
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Lamouroux, Bory de Saint-Vincent and Deslongchamps, 1824 Or Body flexible ; paroral and endoral slightly curved typically w with paroral crossing over endoral at about its ventral "la middle; two pretransverse ventral cirri ; four or number and more transverse cirri; caudal cirri, dorsal (Fig . girdles, an 77) . di- , or po replication during cell NOTE: Molec sequences , oligotrichs is corrobor this subcla transferred ,, , . KEY ,, , , 1. Somatic long), , ' ..'' - .. . ' cilia . 1'. Circumf ... , '• •• A c ·. with sh encircl Dorsal surface. C. Oxytrichia granulifera , ventral view. From Berger and Foissner (1987). Somatic long) , oft body small, With c 1. Bris equato SUBCLASS OLIGOTRICHIA BOtschli, 1887 al polykinetids forming an open circle, ith an anterior "collar" and a more pel"; somatic kineties reduced in variable in pattern , forming bristles , d spirals ; somatic kinetids as mono- , lykinetids ; no lorica; most plankton ic ; band(s) traverse the macronucleus division ; two orders. ular characters (e.g ., SSrRNA Lynn and Sogin , 1988) suggest that the arise within the stichotrichs . If this ated by sequences from other genera, ss should be abandoned and the orders to the Subclass Stichotrichia. TO THE ORDERS IN THE CLASS b 9 <9 e? kinetids with long cilia (i.e., > 10 ~m often cirrus-like "bristles" or st i ff . .. ...... ...... .... ........ ..... ... .... .. .. .... Halteriida erential or girdle kinety of dikinetids ort cilia (i.e., < 5 ~m long), typically ing the body but may spiral towards or ...... ... .. .. .. ... ...... ......... ..Strombidiida