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Description of Odontostomatida
Small ciliates; body usually laterally compressed, often with spines; somatic kineties typically of dikinetids separated into anterior and posterior segments; oral cilia inconspicuous, usually fewer than 10 polykinetids; mainly freshwater anaerobes.
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