mouth
Description:
Cyclidium (sigh-clid-ee-um) is a small scuticociliate, a group which usually has a well developed veil of cilia projecting around the mouth region. This image shows the mouth region and the layer of cilia lying over the top of it. Phase contrast.
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- Life (creatures)
- Cellular (cellular organisms)
- Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
- SAR (Stramenopiles, Alveolates, Rhizaria)
- Alveolata (alveolates)
- Ciliophora (ciliates)
- Intramacronucleata
- Oligohymenophorea
- Scuticociliatia
- Pleuronematida
- Cyclidiidae
- Cyclidium
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- David Patterson, Linda Amaral Zettler and Virginia Edgcomb
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