Biology:Epistylis

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Short description: Genus of single-celled organisms

Epistylis
Scientific classification
(unranked):
Phylum:
Ciliophora
Class:
Subclass:
Peritrichia
Order:
Family:
Epistylidae
Genus:
Epistylis

Ehrenberg, 1830 [1]

Epistylis is a genus of usually colonial peritrich ciliates with a short oral disc and collar, and a rigid stalk.[2] The rigid stalk differentiates Epistylis from the very similar genus Carchesium in which the stalks are contractile like those in Vorticella.[3]

References

  1. Roberto Júnio Pedroso Dias, Sthefane D`Ávila and Marta D`Agosto (2006). "First Record of Epibionts Peritrichids and Suctorians (Protozoa, Ciliophora) on Pomacea lineata (Spix, 1827)". Brazilian Archies of Biology and Technology 49 (5): 807–812. doi:10.1590/S1516-89132006000600015. http://www.scielo.br/pdf/babt/v49n5/15.pdf. 
  2.  One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domainChisholm, Hugh, ed (1911). "Epistylis". Encyclopædia Britannica. 9 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 703. 
  3. Manwell, Reginald D. (1968). Introduction to Protozoology. New York: Dover Publications. p. 331. 

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