Telotroch is the free-swimming stage of members of the order

Sessilida Sessilida is the largest order of the peritrich ciliates. References External links * Oligohymenophorea Ciliate orders {{Ciliate-stub ...

. Sessilida are

ciliate The ciliates are a group of alveolates characterized by the presence of hair-like organelles called cilia, which are identical in structure to flagellum, eukaryotic flagella, but are in general shorter and present in much larger numbers, with a ...

s of the subclass Peritrichia. A sessile individual can turn into a motile one to migrate to a better place.Rosemarie Arbur, Tale of the telotroch
Micscape Magazine; January 2002 Image:Vorticellaconverts1.ogv, Vorticella reverts to a telotroch note time stop in lower righthand corner. Another definition of telotroch: a posterior tuft of cilia in larvae of some animals. See

trochophore A trochophore (; also spelled trocophore) is a type of free-swimming planktonic marine larva with several bands of cilia. By moving their cilia rapidly, they make a water eddy, to control their movement, and to bring their food closer, to captur ...

larva and

hemichordates Hemichordata is a phylum which consists of triploblastic, enterocoelomate, and bilaterally symmetrical marine deuterostome animals, generally considered the sister group of the echinoderms. They appear in the Lower or Middle Cambrian and include ...

for references.

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