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Family UROCENTRIDAE Claparéde & Lachmann, 1858
Syn. Calceolidae

Body short, cylindrical, with two broad encircling bands of closely set cilia plus an eccentric posterior tuft; no depressed prebuccal area, and buccal cavity subequatorial in location; contractile vacuole single, with multiple collecting canals; common planktonic or polysaprobic organisms in fresh-water habitats.

Urocentrum Nitzsch, 1827
(syn. Calceolus).
Single species.