Colepidae is a family of
ciliate
The ciliates are a group of alveolates characterized by the presence of hair-like organelles called cilia, which are identical in structure to eukaryotic flagella, but are in general shorter and present in much larger numbers, with a differen ...
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References
* Key species of the family Colepidae (Prostomatida, Ciliophora) from Lake Baikal. LA Obolkina, Zoologichesky Zhurnal, 1995
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Intramacronucleata
Ciliate families
Taxa named by Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg
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