Plagiopylida

The plagiopylids are a small order of ciliates, including a few forms common in anaerobic habitats.

Plagiopylida
Scientific classification
Clade: TSAR
Clade: SAR
Infrakingdom: Alveolata
Phylum: Ciliophora
Subphylum: Intramacronucleata
Class: Plagiopylea
Small & Lynn, 1985
Order: Plagiopylida
Jankowski, 1978[1]
Typical families
  • Plagiopylidae
  • Sonderiidae

The body cilia are dense, and arise from monokinetids with an entirely unique ultrastructure; one or two rows of dikinetids run into the oral cavity, which takes the form of a groove, with a deep tube lined by oral cilia leading to the mouth. The order was introduced by Eugen Small and Denis Lynn in 1985, who treated it as a subclass of Oligohymenophorea. Since then they tend to be treated as an independent class, possibly affiliated with the Colpodea.

References

  1. Lynn DH (2008-06-24). The Ciliated Protozoa: Characterization, Classification, and Guide to the Literature (3 ed.). Springer. p. 409. ISBN 978-1-4020-8239-9.

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