Oligotrichea

Fig 1a Line drawing: Protargol stained cell, showing kineties, oral structures and nucleus as well as macronuclear variability

Fig 15 Line drawing, live specimen

Fig 2: Lugol?s fixed cells: ventral view of normal specimens

Fig 3: Lugol?s fixed cells: ventral view of normal specimens

Fig 4: Lugol?s fixed cells: stressed form, lateral view, resembling S. acuminatum

Fig 6 SEM of Lugol?s fixed cell, right lateral view, shows the extrusion of trichites (Tr) and the array (A), where many trichites are located below the surface.

Fig 7 Details of the oral region, showing the cilia of the girdle kinety and the hexagonally patterned array of the trichites (A).

Fig1a : Favella ehrenbergii Line drawing of lorica morphology after Marshall, 1969;

Fig1b: Favella ehrenbergii Line drawing of lorica morphology after Kofoid & Campbell, 1929

Fig 4: Favella ehrenbergii Replacement (coxlielliform) lorica, showing spirals and ciliate cell.

Fig 1: Strombidium epidemum Line drawing of protargol stained cell, lateral view, showing girdle kinety, oral structures and nucleus

Fig 2: Strombidium epidemum Lugol?s fixed cells

Fig 3: Strombidium epidemum Lugol?s fixed cells

Fig 4: Strombidium epidemum Lugol?s fixed and DAPI stained cell, illustrating nuclear shape

Fig 6: Strombidium epidemum Protargol stain, lateral view

Fig 7: Strombidium epidemum Protargol stain, lateral view

Fig 9: Strombidium epidemum Protargol stained cells, lateral view

Fig 10: Strombidium epidemum Protargol stained cells, lateral view

Fig 1: Strombidium lynni Line drawings of protargol stained cells, showing kineties, oral structures and nuclei

Fig 2: Strombidium lynni Lugol?s fixed cell, lateral view

Fig 6: Strombidium lynni Protargol stain, ventral view, showing characteristic features

Fig 7: Strombidium lynni Protargol stain, ventral view

Fig 1a: Strobilidium sphaericum Line drawings of protargol stained cells, showing kineties, oral structures and nucleus: Apical view;