Protozoa Guide review

TROGLODYTELLIDAE

family / ENTODINIOMORPHIDA Reichenow / TROGLODYTELLIDAE

Description

Somatic cilia as non -retractable bands encircling body essentially perpendicular to longitudinal axis; oral cilia retractable; large dorsal and ventral skeletal plates ; macronucleus L - shaped ; symbionts of anthropoid apes; two genera. b 9 <9 e? 1. Three somatic ciliary bands ...... Gorillophilus 1'. Four somatic ciliary bands ........ Troglodytella

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Somatic cilia as non -retractable bands
encircling body essentially perpendicular to
longitudinal axis; oral cilia retractable; large
dorsal and ventral skeletal plates ; macronucleus L -
shaped ; symbionts of anthropoid apes; two genera.
b
9 <9 e?
1. Three somatic ciliary bands ...... Gorillophilus
1'. Four somatic ciliary bands ........ Troglodytella