Members of the kingdom Ciliophora are single-celled organisms commonly known as the ciliates. They all have cilia, sometimes a great many, over their surface, and many have more than one nucleus. There are several thousand species living in the sea and in freshwater, feeding mainly on bacteria.
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- Protist Images: Ciliophora Classifies ciliates and provides a large number of images of individual species. English and Japanese.
- The Ciliate Resource Archive Provides a complete classification of the phylum Ciliophora down to genus level.
- Introduction to the Ciliata Photographs and information on these single celled organisms, their appearance in the fossil record, life history, ecology, systematics and morphology.
- Ciliophora: Protozoans that Move with Cilia Illustrations and information on about twenty species of ciliate, with microscopic images of many of them.
- Ciliophora Information and photographs from Microbewiki on these organisms, their description and significance, their genome, cell structure, metabolism and ecology.
- Ciliate Center Images and notes on a number of species of ciliate.
- Paramecium Information on these organisms, often called slipper animalcules, their classification, with links to videos, images and many other sites on protists.
- Ciliates Article by Wim van Egmond introducing these organisms with many excellent photographs of various species.
- Suctoria Photographic study by Jean-Marie Cavanihac of these marine protists, with several animated sequences.
- Folliculina, a Marine Ciliate Photographic study by Wim van Egmond of this tube-dwelling protozoan.
- Ruminating on Some Secret Ciliates. Photographic study by Dave Furness on the ciliates that spend their lives in the rumens of domestic cattle.
- A Preliminary Look at the Ciliates of Borehole 25 David Richman takes samples from a borehole in Bitter Lake National Wildlife Refuge and finds the high-salinity water rich in ciliates.
- Amphileptus Photographic observations by Jim Evarts of the fission and conjugation of these protozoans.
- Blepharisma Photographic study of these ciliates by Jannette Hanna, including videos.
- Carchesium Article by Wim van Egmond on this stalked ciliate, with a pen and ink drawing.
- Coleps Illustration and information on this ciliate.
- Colpoda Article by Rosemarie Arbur with a series of diagrams showing these protists exiting from a cyst.
- Didinium the Master Feeder. Photographic study by Mike Dingley of this ciliate, Didinium nasutum, consuming a Paramecium larger than itself.
- Dileptus at Dinnertime Illustrated article by Rosemarie Arbur on the interactions of the two ciliates, Dileptus and Litonotus, which are both carnivores.
- Dessert for Dileptus Illustrated article by Rosemarie Arbur on the behavior and feeding habits of this ciliate.
- Lacrymaria olor: Tear of a Swan Article by Professor Richard Howey on this freshwater protozoan.
- Actinobolina Being Vorax Article with illustrations by Rosemarie Arbur on a specimen of Actobolina vorax behaving in a strange way.
- Stentors Photographic study by Howard Webb of these colonial ciliates.
- Image Gallery: Paramecium portfolio Some black and white photographs of these organisms, including conjugation and fission, taken by Jim Evarts.
- Paramecium General biology of these organisms with photographs and video clips.
- Dysteria spp. Photograph and information on this ciliate.
- Chlamydodon spp. Photograph of this ciliated protozoan.
- Zoothamnium niveum Photographs and information on this colonial protist.
- Ciliophora (Ciliates) Lists the families and genera included in this diverse group of single celled microbes.
- Euplotes sp. Several images.
- Paramecium Photographs and information on these single-celled organisms.