Suctoria

Translingual

Suctoria

Etymology

They were originally thought to feed by suction.

Proper noun

Suctoria

A taxonomic subclass within the phylum Ciliophora – ciliates which become sessile in their developed stage and then lose their redundant cilia. They feed by extracellular digestion..

Hypernyms

(genus): Eukaryota - superkingdom; Chromista - kingdom; Harosa - subkingdom; Halvaria - infrakingdom; Alveolata - superphylum; Ciliophora - phylum; Intramacronucleata - subphylum; Phyllopharyngea - class

Hyponyms

(genus): Exogenida, Endogenida, Evaginogenida - orders

References

Suctoria on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Suctoria on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
Suctoria on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
Suctoria at World Register of Marine Species
Suctoria on Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
Suctoria at Encyclopedia of Life
Suctoria at National Center for Biotechnology Information
Ruggiero MA, Gordon DP, Orrell TM, Bailly N, Bourgoin T, Brusca RC, et al. (2015) A Higher Level Classification of All Living Organisms. PLoS ONE 10(4): e0119248. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0119248. pmid:25923521

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