Hypotrichida
In Order Sporadotrichida (Faure–Fremiet, 1961)Size, small to large; shape, sometimes elongate,
even tailed, but often oval to elliptical in outline; free–swimming; somatic ventral ciliature as
frontoventralcirri, typically heavy and conspicuous,arranged in specific, localized frontal and
ventralgroups, except in a few taxa (e.g., FamilyHalteriidae, Laurentiella , Onychodromus ,
andStyxophrya ); marginal cirri, typically present; transverse cirri, may or may not be present;
caudal cirri, may or may not be present. Order Sporadotrichida having two families (Denis H. Lynn,
2008).
Family Oxytrichidae(Ehrenberg, 1830) Size, small to large; shape, relatively elongate;free–
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Euplotia, Hypotricha p.p ., Hypotrichea
p.p., Hypotrichida p.p., Hypotrichina p.p.
Hypotrichorida p.p., Pseudohypotrichina)
Size, small to medium; shape, dorsoventrally flattened, typically rigid, oval to rectangular;
freeswimming; alveoli well–developed and, at least in euplotids, filled with a protein, called platein;
somatic ciliature commonly represented by rows or localized groups of polykinetids, called cirri,
conspicuous on the ventral surface; dorsally, files of widely spaced dikinetids with short cilia
("sensory bristles") and retention of a laterallydirected kinetodesmal fibril ; files of marginal cirri,
incomplete or absent; somatic infraciliature typically retained during encystment ; prominent adoral
zone of generally numerous oral polykinetids, as paramembranelles, on left–anterior portion of the
ventral surface, bordering a broad, non–ciliated peristomial field and sometimes continuing over
apical end of body onto the dorsal surface; paroral as paroral and/or endoral in diploor
polystichomonad condition; stomatogenesis, generally apokinetal, beginning in a cortical pocket in
some forms, but sometimes parakinetal; macronucleus, ellipsoid to band–shaped or in fragments,
with replication bands moving from ends to middle when the nucleus is elongated; micronucleus,
one to several; conjugation, temporary; contractile vacuole, at least present in freshwater forms;
cytoproct, present; microphagous and macrophagous; in marine, freshwater, and terrestrial habitats,
widely distributed as free–living forms, but a few species as ectocommensals on various
invertebrates and one inquilinic in an echinoid; two orders. (Denis H. Lynn,
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