Plagiopylida

Plagiopylids
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
(unranked): SAR
(unranked): Alveolata
Phylum: Ciliophora
Subphylum: Intramacronucleata
Class: Plagiopylea
Order: Plagiopylida
Jankowski, 1978[1]
Typical families

Plagiopylidae
Sonderiidae

The plagiopylids are a small order of ciliates, including a few forms common in anaerobic habitats.

The body cilia are dense, and arise from monokinetids with an entirely unique ultrastructure; one or two rows of dikinetids run into the oral cavity, which takes the form of a groove, with a deep tube lined by oral cilia leading to the mouth. The order was introduced by Eugen Small and Denis Lynn in 1985, who treated it as a subclass of Oligohymenophorea. Since then they tend to be treated as an independent class, possibly affiliated with the Colpodea.

References

  1. ↑ Lynn DH. The Ciliated Protozoa: Characterization, Classification, and Guide to the Literature (3 ed.). Springer. p. 409. ISBN 978-1-4020-8239-9.

Further reading

  • Xu, Yuan; Shao, Chen; Miao, Miao; Song, Weibo (January 2013). "Redescription of Parasonderia vestita () comb. nov. (Ciliophora, Plagiopylida), with notes on its phylogeny based on SSU rRNA gene". European Journal of Protistology. 49 (1): 106–113. doi:10.1016/j.ejop.2012.03.001. PMID 22771178.
  • Modeo, Letizia; Fokin, Sergei; Boscaro, Vittorio (February 2013). "Morphology, ultrastructure, and molecular phylogeny of the ciliate Sonderia vorax with insights into the systematics of order Plagiopylida". BMC Microbiology. 13 (40). doi:10.1186/1471-2180-13-40. PMC 3626617. PMID 23418998.


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