| Plate | |
| I | Structure and processes characteristic of ciliates |
| II | Nonciliary features of ciliate oral areas, and modes of stomatogenesis |
| III | Kinds and diversity of ciliate nuclei |
| IV | Structures and features of ciliates revealable by use of silver-impregnation techniques |
| V | Structures and features of ciliates revealable by use of transmission and scanning electron microscopy |
| VI | Representative gymnostomes |
| VII | Position of the oral area vis-à-vis the apical pole of the body in several groups of ciliates |
| VIII | Representative vestibuliferans |
| IX | Representative hypostomes |
| X | Representative suctorians |
| XI | Representative hymenostomes |
| XII | Representative scuticociliates |
| XIII | Representative astomes |
| XIV | Representative peritrichs |
| XV | Representative heterotrichs and odontostomes |
| XVI | Representative oligotrichs |
| XVII | Representative hypotrichs |
| XVIII | Proposed phylogeny for the 15 orders comprising the four subclasses of the class Kinetofragminophora |
| XIX | Proposed phylogeny for the four orders comprising the two subclasses of the class Oligohymenophora |
| XX | Proposed phylogeny for the four orders comprising the subclass Spirotricha of the class Polyhymenophora |
| XXI | Phylogenecic "tree" for the subgroups comprising the entire phylum Ciliophora |
| XXII | Class Kinetofragminophora, subclass Gymnostomata: selected genera |
| XXIII | Class Kinetofragminophora, subclass Vestibulifera: selected genera |
| XXIV | Class Kinetofragminophora, subclass Hypostomata: selected genera |
| XXV | Class Kinetofragminophora, subclass Suctoria: selected genera |
| XXVI | Class Oligohymenophora, subclass Hymenostomata, order Hymenostomatida: selected genera |
| XXVII | Class Oligohymenophora, subclass Hymenostomata, order Scuticociliatida: selected genera |
| XXVIII | Class Oligohymenophora, subclass Hymenostomata, order Astomatida: selected genera |
| XXIX | Class Oligohymenophora, subclass Peritricha, order Peritrichida: selected genera |
| XXX | Class Polyhymenophora, subclass Spirotricha orders Heterotrichida and Odontostomatida: selected genera |
| XXXI | Class Polyhymenophora, subclass Spirotricha, order Oligotricha: selected genera |
| XXXII | Class Polyhymenophora, subclass Spirotricha, order Hypotrichida: selected genera |