|
Name |
Picture |
Characteristic |
Taxonomy |
|
Flagellates
<.5mm |
 |
1. one or more flagella
2. colonial or free living
3. with or without lorica |
Zoomastigophora
i.e
choanoflagellates
|
Amoeba
.02 –5 mm |
 |
1. pseudopodia
2. slow movement
3. engulfs food |
Sacrodina
Order Amoebina
i.e. Amoeba proteus
|
|
Shelled Amoeba
.1-.4 mm |
 |
1. amoeba with a shell, usually sand grains
2. pseudopodia
3. slow movement |
Sacrodina
Order Testacea
i.e
Arcella sp.
|
|
Heliozoans
.01-1 mm |
 |
1. spherical
2. radiating hair like pseudopods
3. no movement |
Sacrodina
Order
Heliozoea
|
|
Ciliates – Peritrich
< .25 mm |
 |
1. cylindrical or bell shaped bodies
2. undulating cilia
3. some stalked
4. often colonial
5.
attached to different substrate |
Ciliophora
Order Peritrichida
i.e.
Vorticella sp.
|
|
Ciliates – Suctoria
<.7 mm |
 |
1. no cilia, sticky tentacles
2. some attached to other organisms (i.e.
Suctoria) |
Ciliophora
Order Eridogenida
i.e.
Tokophyra sp.
|
|
Ciliates
Paramecium
.01 – 4mm |
 |
1. mostly free living forms
2. cell of fixed shape
3. movement by contraction and use of cilia
4. fixed mouth and anal pore |
Ciliophora
Order Oliogohymenophorea
i.e. Paramecium sp |
|
Ciliates
Stentor
.01 – 4 mm |
 |
1. large body
2. contractile
3. cilia on mouth end |
Ciliophora
Orer Heterotrichea
i.e. Stentor sp |
|
Ciliates
Coleps
.01-4mm
|
 |
1. barrel-shaped
2. spinous projection at posterior end
3. cytosome apical |
Ciliophora
Order Prostomatea
i.e. Coleps sp. |
