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Euplotes, common hypotrich ciliate. There is an adoral zone of membranelles extending around the front of the cell and this is used to acquire bacteria and small protists as food. Euplotes uses cirri - collections of cilia - to walk over the substrate. From Lake Donghu, China. Phase contrast micrograph.
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- Life (creatures)
- Cellular (cellular organisms)
- Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
- SAR (Stramenopiles, Alveolates, Rhizaria)
- Alveolata (alveolates)
- Ciliophora (ciliates)
- Intramacronucleata
- Spirotrichea
- Hypotrichia
- Euplotida
- Euplotidae
- Euplotina
- Euplotes
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- Feng Weisong; Gu Xiwen; Yang Jun; Miao Wei and David Patterson
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