HiLGENDORF. — 0)1 Ncw Zealand Eotifera. 



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Order. 



Characteristics. 



Family. 



Characteristics. 



Sub-order 

 Il-loricata 



— contd. 



Sub-order 

 Loricata 



Integument 

 stiffened into 

 a wholly or 

 partially en- 

 closing shell. 

 Foot various 



Triarthradse 



Hydatinadse 



Notomma- 

 tadse 



Rattulidse 



Dinocharidse 



Salpinidae 



Euchlanidse 



Cathypnadse 



Body furnished with skipping 

 appendages ; corona trans- 

 verse ; ciliary wreath single, 

 marginal. Foot absent. 



Corona truncate, with styli- 

 gerous prominences ; ciliary 

 wreath two parallel curves, 

 one fringing corona, the 

 other within it, prominences 

 between the two. Trophi 

 malleate. Foot furcate. 



Corona obliquely transverse ; 

 ciliary wreath of interrupted 

 curves and clusters, usually 

 with a marginal wreath sur- 

 rounding the buccal orifice. 

 Trophi forcipate. Foot fur- 

 cate. 



Body cylindric or fusiform, 

 smooth, without plicae or 

 angles; contained in a lorica 

 closed all round, but open 

 at each end. Trophi long, 

 asymmetric. Eye single, 

 cervical. 



Lorica entire, vase-shaped or 

 depressed, sometimes fa- 

 cetted, often spinous; head 

 distinct, with chitinous 

 covering. Foot and toes 

 often greatly developed. 

 Trophi symmetrical. 



Body more or less completely 

 enclosed in a firm lorica, 

 which is open at each or 

 only one end, and divided 

 down the back by a fissure, 

 whose sides are united hy 

 membrane. Two furcate 

 toes always exposed. 



Loricaof two dissimilar plates, 

 one dorsal or ventral, united 

 80 as to form two confluent 

 cavities, of which the upper 

 is much the larger. Foot 

 jointed, furcate. 



Body enclosed in a lorica, 

 open at each end, of two 

 plates, the dorsal more or 

 less elevated, the ventral 

 nearly flat, the two divided 

 by a deep lateral longitu- 

 dinal sulcus, covered with 

 flexible membrane. Toes 

 two or one, always ex- 

 posed. 



