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Members of the kingdom Ciliophora are single-celled organisms commonly known as the ciliates. They all have cilia, sometimes a great many, over their surface, and many have more than one nucleus. There are several thousand species living in the sea and in freshwater, feeding mainly on bacteria.
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Protist Images: Ciliophora - Classifies ciliates and provides a large number of images of individual species. English and Japanese. The Ciliate Resource Archive - Provides a complete classification of the phylum Ciliophora down to genus level. Introduction to the Ciliata - Photographs and information on these single celled organisms, their appearance in the fossil record, life history, ecology, systematics and morphology. Ciliophora: Protozoans that Move with Cilia - Illustrations and information on about twenty species of ciliate, with microscopic images of many of them. Ciliophora - Information and photographs from Microbewiki on these organisms, their description and significance, their genome, cell structure, metabolism and ecology. Ciliate Center - Images and notes on a number of species of ciliate. Paramecium - Information on these organisms, often called slipper animalcules, their classification, with links to videos, images and many other sites on protists. Ciliates - Article by Wim van Egmond introducing these organisms with many excellent photographs of various species. Suctoria - Photographic study by Jean-Marie Cavanihac of these marine protists, with several animated sequences. Folliculina, a Marine Ciliate - Photographic study by Wim van Egmond of this tube-dwelling protozoan. Ruminating on Some Secret Ciliates. - Photographic study by Dave Furness on the ciliates that spend their lives in the rumens of domestic cattle. A Preliminary Look at the Ciliates of Borehole 25 - David Richman takes samples from a borehole in Bitter Lake National Wildlife Refuge and finds the high-salinity water rich in ciliates. Amphileptus - Photographic observations by Jim Evarts of the fission and conjugation of these protozoans. Blepharisma - Photographic study of these ciliates by Jannette Hanna, including videos. Carchesium - Article by Wim van Egmond on this stalked ciliate, with a pen and ink drawing. Coleps - Illustration and information on this ciliate. Colpoda - Article by Rosemarie Arbur with a series of diagrams showing these protists exiting from a cyst. Didinium the Master Feeder. - Photographic study by Mike Dingley of this ciliate, Didinium nasutum, consuming a Paramecium larger than itself. Dileptus at Dinnertime - Illustrated article by Rosemarie Arbur on the interactions of the two ciliates, Dileptus and Litonotus, which are both carnivores. Dessert for Dileptus - Illustrated article by Rosemarie Arbur on the behavior and feeding habits of this ciliate. Lacrymaria olor: Tear of a Swan - Article by Professor Richard Howey on this freshwater protozoan. Actinobolina Being Vorax - Article with illustrations by Rosemarie Arbur on a specimen of Actobolina vorax behaving in a strange way. Stentors - Photographic study by Howard Webb of these colonial ciliates. Image Gallery: Paramecium portfolio - Some black and white photographs of these organisms, including conjugation and fission, taken by Jim Evarts. Paramecium - General biology of these organisms with photographs and video clips. Dysteria spp. - Photograph and information on this ciliate. Chlamydodon spp. - Photograph of this ciliated protozoan. Zoothamnium niveum - Photographs and information on this colonial protist. Ciliophora (Ciliates) - Lists the families and genera included in this diverse group of single celled microbes. Euplotes sp. - Several images. Paramecium - Photographs and information on these single-celled organisms.
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