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BIOLOGY OF THE PROTOZOA 



Erdmann (1914) who termed the phenomena accompanying this 

 method of reorganization "endomixis" (p. 817). In other types of 





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Fig. 201. — Glaucoma (Dallasia) frontata. Normal conjugation occurring later in 

 the life history. (After Calkins and Bowling.) 



ciliates similar asexual processes of reorganization take place under 

 the protection of a cyst (for significance of reorganization see 

 Chapter IX). 



CLASSIFICATION OF THE INFUSORIA. 



Sub-phylum. INFUSORIA Ledenmt'tller; em. Butkchli. 



Class I. Ciliata Perty; em. Bi'itschli. 

 Sub-class I. Holotricha Stein 

 Order 1. Astomida Cepede 



Family 1. Opalinidae Stein 



Family 2. Anoplophryidae Cepede 



Family 3. Chromodinidae Cheissin 



Family 4. Haptophryidae Cepede 



Family 5. Intoshellinidae Cepede 



Family 6. Hoplitophryidae Cheissin 

 Order 2. Gymnostomida Biitschli 



Sub-order 1. Prostomina (Prostomata Schowiakoff) 



Family 1. Holophryidae Perty 



Family 2. Actinobolinidae Kent 



Family 3. Metacystidae Kahl 



Family 4. Didiniidae Poche 



Family 5. Colepidae Kent 



Family 6. Spathidiidae Kahl 



Family 7. Butschliidae Poche 

 Sub-order 2. Pleurostomina (Tribe Pleurostomata Schewiakoff) 



Family 1. Amphileptidae Schoutedon 



Family 2. Tracheliidae Ehr. 



Family 3. Loxodidae Roux. 



