Directory of Ciliophora Resources

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Members of the kingdom Ciliophora are single-celled organisms commonly known as the ciliates. They all have cilia, sometimes a great many, over their surface, and many have more than one nucleus. There are several thousand species living in the sea and in freshwater, feeding mainly on bacteria.

Resources in This Category

• A Preliminary Look at the Ciliates of Borehole 25

  http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/artnov03/drcilia.html
  David Richman takes samples from a borehole in Bitter Lake National Wildlife Refuge and finds the high-salinity water rich in ciliates.

• Actinobolina Being Vorax

  http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/artoct01/actinobolina.html
  Article with illustrations by Rosemarie Arbur on a specimen of Actobolina vorax behaving in a strange way.

• Amphileptus

  http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/artdec00/amphileptus.html
  Photographic observations by Jim Evarts of the fission and conjugation of these protozoans.

• Blepharisma

  http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/artnov04macro/jhblepharisma.html
  Photographic study of these ciliates by Jannette Hanna, including videos.

• Carchesium

  http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/art97/junimg2.html
  Article by Wim van Egmond on this stalked ciliate, with a pen and ink drawing.

• Chlamydodon spp.

  http://www.sms.si.edu/irlspec/Chlamyd_spp.htm
  Photograph of this ciliated protozoan.

• Ciliate Center

  http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/indexmag.html?http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/wimsmall/smal1.html
  Images and notes on a number of species of ciliate.

• Ciliates

  http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/wimsmall/cilidr.html
  Article by Wim van Egmond introducing these organisms with many excellent photographs of various species.

• Ciliophora

  http://microbewiki.kenyon.edu/index.php/Ciliophora
  Information and photographs from Microbewiki on these organisms, their description and significance, their genome, cell structure, metabolism and ecology.

• Ciliophora (Ciliates)

  http://www.biodiversityexplorer.org/eukaryotes/chromalveolata/alveolata/ciliophora/
  Lists the families and genera included in this diverse group of single celled microbes.

• Ciliophora: Protozoans that Move with Cilia

  http://www.microscope-microscope.org/applications/pond-critters/protozoans/ciliphora/ciliophora.htm
  Illustrations and information on about twenty species of ciliate, with microscopic images of many of them.

• Coleps

  http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/art97/colepsi.html
  Illustration and information on this ciliate.

• Colpoda

  http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/artsep00/colpoda.html
  Article by Rosemarie Arbur with a series of diagrams showing these protists exiting from a cyst.

• Dessert for Dileptus

  http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/artapr01/dileptus2.html
  Illustrated article by Rosemarie Arbur on the behavior and feeding habits of this ciliate.

• Didinium the Master Feeder.

  http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/art97/dingley3.html
  Photographic study by Mike Dingley of this ciliate, Didinium nasutum, consuming a Paramecium larger than itself.

• Dileptus at Dinnertime

  http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/artnov00/dinnertime.html
  Illustrated article by Rosemarie Arbur on the interactions of the two ciliates, Dileptus and Litonotus, which are both carnivores.

• Dysteria spp.

  http://www.sms.si.edu/irlspec/Dysteria_spp.htm
  Photograph and information on this ciliate.

• Euplotes sp.

  http://www.pirx.com/droplet/gallery/euplotes.html
  Several images.

• Folliculina, a Marine Ciliate

  http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/artjan03/fol.html
  Photographic study by Wim van Egmond of this tube-dwelling protozoan.

• Image Gallery: Paramecium portfolio

  http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/artapr02/jeparam.html
  Some black and white photographs of these organisms, including conjugation and fission, taken by Jim Evarts.

• Introduction to the Ciliata

  http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/protista/ciliata.html
  Photographs and information on these single celled organisms, their appearance in the fossil record, life history, ecology, systematics and morphology.

• Lacrymaria olor: Tear of a Swan

  http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/art98/tear1.html
  Article by Professor Richard Howey on this freshwater protozoan.

• Paramecium

  http://www.101science.com/paramecium.htm
  Information on these organisms, often called slipper animalcules, their classification, with links to videos, images and many other sites on protists.

• Paramecium

  http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/articles/param1.html
  General biology of these organisms with photographs and video clips.

• Paramecium

  http://fcps.edu/islandcreekes/ecology/paramecium.htm
  Photographs and information on these single-celled organisms.

• Protist Images: Ciliophora

  http://protist.i.hosei.ac.jp/PDB/Images/Protista/CiliophoraE.html
  Classifies ciliates and provides a large number of images of individual species. English and Japanese.

• Ruminating on Some Secret Ciliates.

  http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/artnov03/dfrumen.html
  Photographic study by Dave Furness on the ciliates that spend their lives in the rumens of domestic cattle.

• Stentors

  http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/artjul07/hw-stentor.html
  Photographic study by Howard Webb of these colonial ciliates.

• Suctoria

  http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/artmar03/jmcsuctoria.html
  Photographic study by Jean-Marie Cavanihac of these marine protists, with several animated sequences.

• The Ciliate Resource Archive

  http://www.uoguelph.ca/~ciliates/classification/genera.html
  Provides a complete classification of the phylum Ciliophora down to genus level.

• Zoothamnium niveum

  http://www.sms.si.edu/irlspec/Zootham_niveum.htm
  Photographs and information on this colonial protist.

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