Bharathidasan, Veeraiyan;Sarathy, Palanivel Partha;Murugesan, Perumal;Nogueira, João Miguel De Matos
Epistylis
Sign in to saveEpistylis is a genus of usually colonial peritrich ciliates with a short oral disc and collar, and a rigid stalk. The rigid stalk differentiates Epistylis from the very similar genus Carchesium in which the stalks are contractile like those in Vorticella.
Species
エピスティリス属
GENUS
- KingdomChromista
- PhylumCiliophora
- ClassOligohymenophorea
- OrderPeritrichida
- FamilyEpistylididae
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 12
- Family
- Epistylididae
- Collections
- MSB, CMN, USNM, NHMUK, QM
- Recorded in
- United States, Canada, China, Brazil, Spain, Australia
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Epistylididae
- Image
- Epistylis sp.jpg
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- genus
- taxon name
- Epistylis
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- Epistylis
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
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Epistylis is a genus of usually colonial peritrich ciliates with a short oral disc and collar, and a rigid stalk. The rigid stalk differentiates Epistylis from the very similar genus Carchesium in which the stalks are contractile like those in Vorticella.
==References==
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Epistylis” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.