Description
de Puytorac et al., 1974 Right oral polykinetid composed of few to many somewhat disordered rows (reduced to a single row of dikinetids in some genera); left oral polykinetid composed of several to many monokinetidal rows ; some with special somatic cilia in a groove, directing food to oral cavity; stomatogenesis merotelokinetal in reproductive cysts (Fig. 1); seven families . b 9 <9 e? 1. Small feeding tube (a protruding cytopharynx) used for puncturing fungi and yeasts ; oral ciliary structures inconspicuous ...... .. .. .. .. Grossg lockneriidae 1'. Feeding tube absent; oral ciliary structures more conspicuous, surrounding cytostome with invaginated cytopharynx .... .. .... .. .. .. ..... .. 2 2. Oral apparatus in posterior half of body; oral ciliary structures restricted to small oral cavity ... ...... .... ... ..... ..... .. ... ... .. ..... .. Marynidae 2'. Oral apparatus in anterior half or mid-body; oral ciliary structures may extend out on cell surface .. ...... .... ... ... ..... .............. .. ........ ... .. .... ... 3 3. Right and left oral polykinetids of about equal length .... ......... .... ........... ... ............ Colpodidae 3'. Right and left oral polykinetids of different lengths .... .. .... ... ... ..... .... .. ... ............. .... .... ... .. .. . 4 4. Right oral polykinetid distinctly longer than left oral polykinetid .... .. . Hausmanniellidae 4' . Left oral polykinetid distinctly longer than right oral polykinetid and extending out onto cell surface.... ............. .......... Ba rdel i ell idae
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de Puytorac et al., 1974 Right oral polykinetid composed of few to many somewhat disordered rows (reduced to a single row of dikinetids in some genera); left oral polykinetid composed of several to many monokinetidal rows ; some with special somatic cilia in a groove, directing food to oral cavity; stomatogenesis merotelokinetal in reproductive cysts (Fig. 1); seven families . b 9 <9 e? 1. Small feeding tube (a protruding cytopharynx) used for puncturing fungi and yeasts ; oral ciliary structures inconspicuous ...... .. .. .. .. Grossg lockneriidae 1'. Feeding tube absent; oral ciliary structures more conspicuous, surrounding cytostome with invaginated cytopharynx .... .. .... .. .. .. ..... .. 2 2. Oral apparatus in posterior half of body; oral ciliary structures restricted to small oral cavity ... ...... .... ... ..... ..... .. ... ... .. ..... .. Marynidae 2'. Oral apparatus in anterior half or mid-body; oral ciliary structures may extend out on cell surface .. ...... .... ... ... ..... .............. .. ........ ... .. .... ... 3 3. Right and left oral polykinetids of about equal length .... ......... .... ........... ... ............ Colpodidae 3'. Right and left oral polykinetids of different lengths .... .. .... ... ... ..... .... .. ... ............. .... .... ... .. .. . 4 4. Right oral polykinetid distinctly longer than left oral polykinetid .... .. . Hausmanniellidae 4' . Left oral polykinetid distinctly longer than right oral polykinetid and extending out onto cell surface.... ............. .......... Ba rdel i ell idae