The Ciliated Protozoa

Chapter 1 Introduction and Progress in the Last Half Century

Chapter 2 Glossary of Terms and Concepts Useful in Ciliate Systematics

Chapter 3 Characters and the Rationale Behind the New Classification

Chapter 4 Phylum CILIOPHORA – Conjugating, Ciliated Protists with Nuclear Dualism

Chapter 5 Subphylum 1. POSTCILIODESMATOPHORA: Class 1. KARYORELICTEA – The “Dawn” or Eociliates

Chapter 7 Subphylum 2. INTRAMACRONUCLEATA: Class 1. SPIROTRICHEA – Ubiquitous and Morphologically Complex

Chapter 8 Subphylum 2. INTRAMACRONUCLEATA: Class 2. ARMOPHOREA – Sapropelebionts that Once Were Heterotrichs

Chapter 9 Subphylum 2. INTRAMACRONUCLEATA: Class 3. LITOSTOMATEA – Simple Ciliates but Highly Derived

Chapter 10 Subphylum 2. INTRAMACRONUCLEATA: Class 4. PHYLLOPHARYNGEA — Diverse in Form, Related in Structure

Chapter 11 Subphylum 2. INTRAMACRONUCLEATA: Class 5. NASSOPHOREA — Diverse, Yet Still Possibly Pivotal

Chapter 12 Subphylum 2. INTRAMACRONUCLEATA: Class 6. COLPODEA — Somatically Conserved but Orally Diverse

Chapter 13 Subphylum 2. INTRAMACRONUCLEATA: Class 7. PROSTOMATEA — Once Considered Ancestral, Now Definitely Derived

Chapter 14 Subphylum 2. INTRAMACRONUCLEATA: Class 8. PLAGIOPYLEA — A True Riboclass of Uncommon Companions

Chapter 15 Subphylum 2. INTRAMACRONUCLEATA: Class 9. OLIGOHYMENOPHOREA — Once a Pivotal Group, Now a Terminal Radiation

Chapter 16 Deep Phylogeny, Gene Sequences, and Character State Evolution — Mapping the Course of Ciliate Evolution

Chapter 17 The Ciliate Taxa Including Families and Genera