Pleurostomatida — Overview

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Description of Pleurostomatida

Haptorid ciliates with laterally compressed bodies; both sides ciliated, cilia may be only as bristles on 1 side; oral kinetids as left and right components extending at least along the ventral edge of a laterally flattened body.

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