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Right ventral somatic kineties not covered ; left ventral field as several kinetal fragments near mouth and equator; 2 oral nematodesmata (Fig. 32). Dragesco & Dragesco-Kerneis , 1986. Heuss and Wilbert, 1973) 514 CILIOPHORA, RHYNCODIA SUBCLASS RHYNCHODIA CHATTON AND LWOFF, 1939 2 Oral region not bounded by oral kinetal structures ; oral apparatus a suctorial tube supported by radially arranged microtubular ribbons (= ph y II a e) enclosing toxic ( ? ) extrusomes (acmocysts or haptotricho- cysts) ; homomerous macronucleus; R predators of other ciliates or endosymbionts of o bivalve molluscs and other marine invertebrates; t two orders. o p b 9 e? K 1. Body dorsoventrally flattened ; somatic a ciliature essentially restricted to the ventral w surface with a short anterio-lateral left kinety ; posterior adhesive region bounded by somatic kineties ............ .... ... .. .. Hypocomatida 1'. Somatic ciliature organized in a thigmotactic field , which may be divided in two and leave a large part of the cell surface bare; kinetids may not be ciliated; no posterior adhesive region .. ... ..... .. .. .... .. .. ......... ..... ... .. Rhynchodida
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Right ventral somatic kineties not covered ; left ventral field as several kinetal fragments near mouth and equator; 2 oral nematodesmata (Fig. 32). Dragesco & Dragesco-Kerneis , 1986. Heuss and Wilbert, 1973) 514 CILIOPHORA, RHYNCODIA SUBCLASS RHYNCHODIA CHATTON AND LWOFF, 1939 2 Oral region not bounded by oral kinetal structures ; oral apparatus a suctorial tube supported by radially arranged microtubular ribbons (= ph y II a e) enclosing toxic ( ? ) extrusomes (acmocysts or haptotricho- cysts) ; homomerous macronucleus; R predators of other ciliates or endosymbionts of o bivalve molluscs and other marine invertebrates; t two orders. o p b 9 e? K 1. Body dorsoventrally flattened ; somatic a ciliature essentially restricted to the ventral w surface with a short anterio-lateral left kinety ; posterior adhesive region bounded by somatic kineties ............ .... ... .. .. Hypocomatida 1'. Somatic ciliature organized in a thigmotactic field , which may be divided in two and leave a large part of the cell surface bare; kinetids may not be ciliated; no posterior adhesive region .. ... ..... .. .. .... .. .. ......... ..... ... .. Rhynchodida