Suctoria

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Translingual[edit]

Suctoria

Etymology[edit]

They were originally thought to feed by suction.

Proper noun[edit]

Suctoria

  1. A taxonomic subclass within the phylum Ciliophora – ciliates which become sessile in their developed stage and then lose their redundant cilia and feed by extracellular digestion.[1]

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References[edit]

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 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. PMID 25923521, doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0119248