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Suctoria are
ciliates that
become sessile in
their developed stage and then lose
their redundant cilia. They feed by
extracellular digestion. They were...
- Didinium,
where it is
often depicted devouring a
hapless Paramecium. The
suctorian ciliates were
originally thought to have fed
exclusively through myzocytosis...
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exchanged over the bridge. In some
ciliates (peritrichs,
chonotrichs and some
suctorians),
conjugating cells become permanently fused, and one
conjugant is absorbed...
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Dendrocometes is a
genus of
suctorian infusoria,
characterized by the
repeatedly branched attached body; each of the
lobes of the body
gives off a few...
- with
cilia restricted to a
funnel leading down into the mouth.
Mature suctorians lack
cilia altogether, and
initially were not
classified as ciliates....
- "A
review of the
species of
protozoan epibionts on crustaceans. II.
Suctorian ciliates". Crustaceana. 73 (10): 1205–1237. doi:10.1163/156854000505209...
- and
Marta D`Agosto (2006). "First
Record of
Epibionts Peritrichids and
Suctorians (Protozoa, Ciliophora) on
Pomacea lineata (Spix, 1827)" (PDF). Brazilian...
- as
describing 116 new
species (including 55 isopods, 28 copepods, one
suctorian and one chaetognath), 16
genera and one order, Mictacea,
Bowman also produced...
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iodide staining to the
study of the
macronucleus and
micronuclei in the
suctorian Heliophyra sp. Stain
Technology 62: 217–220. Taylor, D. W., M. Parra...
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Tokophrya is a
genus of
suctorians. An
example is
Tokophrya lemnarum. The
genus used to
belong to the
family Dendrosomatidae, but now it
belongs to its...
