Contents

List of Illustrations

Plate
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
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
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