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.
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Article with illustrations by Rosemarie Arbur on a specimen of Actobolina vorax behaving in a strange way.
Photographic observations by Jim Evarts of the fission and conjugation of these protozoans.
Photographic study of these ciliates by Jannette Hanna, including videos.
Article by Wim van Egmond on this stalked ciliate, with a pen and ink drawing.
Photograph of this ciliated protozoan.
Images and notes on a number of species of ciliate.
Article by Wim van Egmond introducing these organisms with many excellent photographs of various species.
Information and photographs from Microbewiki on these organisms, their description and significance, their genome, cell structure, metabolism and ecology.
Illustrations and information on about twenty species of ciliate, with microscopic images of many of them.
Illustration and information on this ciliate.
Article by Rosemarie Arbur with a series of diagrams showing these protists exiting from a cyst.
Illustrated article by Rosemarie Arbur on the behavior and feeding habits of this ciliate.
Photographic study by Mike Dingley of this ciliate, Didinium nasutum, consuming a Paramecium larger than itself.
Illustrated article by Rosemarie Arbur on the interactions of the two ciliates, Dileptus and Litonotus, which are both carnivores.
Photograph and information on this ciliate.
Several images.
Photographic study by Wim van Egmond of this tube-dwelling protozoan.
Some black and white photographs of these organisms, including conjugation and fission, taken by Jim Evarts.
Photographs and information on these single celled organisms, their appearance in the fossil record, life history, ecology, systematics and morphology.
Article by Professor Richard Howey on this freshwater protozoan.
General biology of these organisms with photographs and video clips.
Information on these organisms, often called slipper animalcules, their classification, with links to videos, images and many other sites on protists.
David Richman takes samples from a borehole in Bitter Lake National Wildlife Refuge and finds the high-salinity water rich in ciliates.
Classifies ciliates and provides a large number of images of individual species. English and Japanese.
Photographic study by Dave Furness on the ciliates that spend their lives in the rumens of domestic cattle.
Photographic study by Howard Webb of these colonial ciliates.
Photographic study by Jean-Marie Cavanihac of these marine protists, with several animated sequences.
Photographs and information on this colonial protist.
Illustrations and information on about twenty species of ciliate, with microscopic images of many of them.
Photograph of this ciliated protozoan.
Photograph and information on this ciliate.
Photographs and information on this colonial protist.
Several images.
Some black and white photographs of these organisms, including conjugation and fission, taken by Jim Evarts.
General biology of these organisms with photographs and video clips.
Illustrated article by Rosemarie Arbur on the behavior and feeding habits of this ciliate.
Photographic observations by Jim Evarts of the fission and conjugation of these protozoans.
David Richman takes samples from a borehole in Bitter Lake National Wildlife Refuge and finds the high-salinity water rich in ciliates.
Photographic study by Howard Webb of these colonial ciliates.
Article by Professor Richard Howey on this freshwater protozoan.
Photographic study of these ciliates by Jannette Hanna, including videos.
Article by Rosemarie Arbur with a series of diagrams showing these protists exiting from a cyst.
Article by Wim van Egmond on this stalked ciliate, with a pen and ink drawing.
Article with illustrations by Rosemarie Arbur on a specimen of Actobolina vorax behaving in a strange way.
Illustrated article by Rosemarie Arbur on the interactions of the two ciliates, Dileptus and Litonotus, which are both carnivores.
Photographic study by Dave Furness on the ciliates that spend their lives in the rumens of domestic cattle.
Illustration and information on this ciliate.
Photographic study by Mike Dingley of this ciliate, Didinium nasutum, consuming a Paramecium larger than itself.
Photographic study by Wim van Egmond of this tube-dwelling protozoan.
Photographic study by Jean-Marie Cavanihac of these marine protists, with several animated sequences.
Article by Wim van Egmond introducing these organisms with many excellent photographs of various species.
Information on these organisms, often called slipper animalcules, their classification, with links to videos, images and many other sites on protists.
Images and notes on a number of species of ciliate.
Photographs and information on these single celled organisms, their appearance in the fossil record, life history, ecology, systematics and morphology.
Information and photographs from Microbewiki on these organisms, their description and significance, their genome, cell structure, metabolism and ecology.
Classifies ciliates and provides a large number of images of individual species. English and Japanese.
