Plagiopylida
| Plagiopylida | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Clade: | Diaphoretickes |
| Clade: | TSAR |
| Clade: | SAR |
| Clade: | Alveolata |
| Phylum: | Ciliophora |
| Subphylum: | Intramacronucleata |
| Class: | Plagiopylea |
| Order: | Plagiopylida Jankowski, 1978[1] |
| Typical families | |
The plagiopylids are a small order of ciliates, including a few forms common in anaerobic habitats.
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
- ^ 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.
Further reading
- Xu, Yuan; Shao, Chen; Miao, Miao; Song, Weibo (January 2013). "Redescription of Parasonderia vestita () comb. nov. (Ciliophora, Plagiopylida), with notes on its phylogeny based on SSU rRNA gene". European Journal of Protistology. 49 (1): 106–113. doi:10.1016/j.ejop.2012.03.001. PMID 22771178.
- Modeo, Letizia; Fokin, Sergei; Boscaro, Vittorio (February 2013). "Morphology, ultrastructure, and molecular phylogeny of the ciliate Sonderia vorax with insights into the systematics of order Plagiopylida". BMC Microbiology. 13 (40): 40. doi:10.1186/1471-2180-13-40. PMC 3626617. PMID 23418998.
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