Ciliophora

Examples

• All

• "I am pleased to have your recent letter on the 'Flora and Fauna' and the two manuals on the Ciliophora and on the higher plants of the marine fringe."

  Academic text (1996)

• The Ciliophora are often found in freshwater environments, where they use their cilia to swim and feed.

• The Ciliophora class includes species that are important for nutrient cycling in ponds and lakes.

Synonyms

C

ciliate

vsCiliophora

• Specialized

1 9.9

A single-celled organism with tiny hairs used to move and feed

is the taxonomic class containing these individual organisms

C

Ciliata

vsCiliophora

• Specialized

9.9

A group of single-celled animals with tiny hairs at some stage that they use to move and eat

is the alternative scientific name for the same class

C

ciliated protozoan

vsCiliophora

• Specialized

7.9

A single cell living thing that uses tiny hairs to move and eat

is the higher taxonomic category that groups these organisms

C

ciliophoran

vsCiliophora

• Specialized

9.9

A single-celled animal with many tiny hairs called cilia that it uses to move and eat

is the taxonomic class rather than a single organism

I

infusorian

vsCiliophora

• Archaic

9.9

A very small water creature seen only with a microscope that moves with tiny hairs

is the current scientific class including organisms with surface cilia

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology