Colpodellida is an
order of
alveolate
The alveolates (meaning "pitted like a honeycomb") are a group of protists, considered a major clade and superphylum within Eukarya. They are currently grouped with the stramenopiles and Rhizaria among the protists with tubulocristate mitochon ...
eukaryotes, which includes small predatory species such as ''
Colpodella pugnax''. They are active predatory flagellates that consume small protists. However they do not fully ingest the prey, rather they absorb or suck the contents from the prey partially or fully. This method of sucking the contents from the prey is termed as mizocytosis.
[Mylnikov, A.P. Ultrastructure and phylogeny of colpodellids (Colpodellida, Alveolata). Biol Bull Russ Acad Sci 36, 582–590 (2009). https://link.springer.com/article/10.1134/S1062359009060065
]
References
Apicomplexa orders
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