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Family ASTYLOZOIDAE Kahl, 1935
Syns. Astylozooidae,
Astylozoonidae,
Hastatellidae

Stalkless, mobile, planktonic forms, with one or two rigid caudal bristles; organisms resemble zooids of Vorticella broken away from stalk; mature form swims with apical pole forward, telotroch with antapical end first; two or more prominent circlets of curious spines in second genus.

Astylozoon Engelmann, 1862
(syn. Geleiella).
Several species.
Hastatella Erlanger, 1890.
Few species.