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Peritrichia
Sign in to saveThe peritrichs (Latin: Peritrichia) are a large and distinctive group of ciliates.
Species
緑毛／周毛亜綱
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumArthropoda
- ClassInsecta
- OrderColeoptera
- FamilyScarabaeidae
Habitatmarine, brackish, freshwater
Observations17
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Oligohymenophorea
- Image
- Zoothamnium niveum.jpg
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- Commons category
- Peritrichia
- taxon name
- Peritrichia
- taxon rank
- subclass
- taxon author citation
- Stein, 1859
- homonymous taxon
- Peritrichia
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Encyclopedic overview
6 sectionsContents
- Structure
- Order Sessilida
- Order Mobilida
- References
- Further reading
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The peritrichs (Latin: Peritrichia) are a large and distinctive group of ciliates.
The peritrichs were first defined by Friedrich von Stein in 1859. Initially they were considered spirotrichs, then treated as a separate category, before receiving their modern placement.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Peritrichia” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.