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A Preliminary Look at the Ciliates of Borehole 25 - http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/artnov03/drcilia.html
David Richman takes samples from a borehole in Bitter Lake National Wildlife Refuge and finds the high-salinity water rich in ciliates.

Actinobolina Being Vorax - http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/artoct01/actinobolina.html
Article with illustrations by Rosemarie Arbur on a specimen of Actobolina vorax behaving in a strange way.

Amphileptus - http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/artdec00/amphileptus.html
Photographic observations by Jim Evarts of the fission and conjugation of these protozoans.

Blepharisma - http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/artnov04macro/jhblepharisma.html
Photographic study of these ciliates by Jannette Hanna, including videos.

Carchesium - http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/art97/junimg2.html
Article by Wim van Egmond on this stalked ciliate, with a pen and ink drawing.

Chlamydodon spp. - http://www.sms.si.edu/irlspec/Chlamyd_spp.htm
Photograph of this ciliated protozoan.

Ciliate Center - http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/indexmag.html?http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/wimsmall/smal1.html
Images and notes on a number of species of ciliate.

Ciliates - http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/wimsmall/cilidr.html
Article by Wim van Egmond introducing these organisms with many excellent photographs of various species.

Ciliophora - http://microbewiki.kenyon.edu/index.php/Ciliophora
Information and photographs from Microbewiki on these organisms, their description and significance, their genome, cell structure, metabolism and ecology.

Ciliophora (Ciliates) - http://www.biodiversityexplorer.org/eukaryotes/chromalveolata/alveolata/ciliophora/
Lists the families and genera included in this diverse group of single celled microbes.

Ciliophora: Protozoans that Move with Cilia - http://www.microscope-microscope.org/applications/pond-critters/protozoans/ciliphora/ciliophora.htm
Illustrations and information on about twenty species of ciliate, with microscopic images of many of them.

Dessert for Dileptus - http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/artapr01/dileptus2.html
Illustrated article by Rosemarie Arbur on the behavior and feeding habits of this ciliate.

Didinium the Master Feeder. - http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/art97/dingley3.html
Photographic study by Mike Dingley of this ciliate, Didinium nasutum, consuming a Paramecium larger than itself.

Dileptus at Dinnertime - http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/artnov00/dinnertime.html
Illustrated article by Rosemarie Arbur on the interactions of the two ciliates, Dileptus and Litonotus, which are both carnivores.

Dysteria spp. - http://www.sms.si.edu/irlspec/Dysteria_spp.htm
Photograph and information on this ciliate.

Folliculina, a Marine Ciliate - http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/artjan03/fol.html
Photographic study by Wim van Egmond of this tube-dwelling protozoan.

http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/art97/colepsi.html - http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/art97/colepsi.html
Illustration and information on this ciliate.

http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/artsep00/colpoda.html - http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/artsep00/colpoda.html
Article by Rosemarie Arbur with a series of diagrams showing these protists exiting from a cyst.

Image Gallery: Paramecium portfolio - http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/artapr02/jeparam.html
Some black and white photographs of these organisms, including conjugation and fission, taken by Jim Evarts.

Introduction to the Ciliata - http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/protista/ciliata.html
Photographs and information on these single celled organisms, their appearance in the fossil record, life history, ecology, systematics and morphology.

Lacrymaria olor: Tear of a Swan - http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/art98/tear1.html
Article by Professor Richard Howey on this freshwater protozoan.

Neotypification of Protists, Especially Ciliates - http://www.iczn.org/BZNSep2002general_articles.htm
Abstract from a paper proposing that ciliate species should be accurately re-described in the light of new preservation methods that can now be used.

Paramecium - http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/articles/param1.html
General biology of these organisms with photographs and video clips.

Paramecium - http://www.101science.com/paramecium.htm
Information on these organisms, often called slipper animalcules, their classification, with links to videos, images and many other sites on protists.

Protist Images: Ciliophora - http://protist.i.hosei.ac.jp/PDB/Images/Protista/CiliophoraE.html
Classifies ciliates and provides a large number of images of individual species. English and Japanese.

Ruminating on Some Secret Ciliates. - http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/artnov03/dfrumen.html
Photographic study by Dave Furness on the ciliates that spend their lives in the rumens of domestic cattle.

Stentors - http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/artjul07/hw-stentor.html
Photographic study by Howard Webb of these colonial ciliates.

Suctoria - http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/artmar03/jmcsuctoria.html
Photographic study by Jean-Marie Cavanihac of these marine protists, with several animated sequences.

Tetrahymena - http://www.microbiologybytes.com/video/Tetrahymena.html
Information on this ciliated freshwater protozoan, with a video showing organisms swimming, dividing and moving their cilia from the Microbiology Video Library.

The Ciliate Resource Archive - http://www.uoguelph.ca/~ciliates/classification/genera.html
Provides a complete classification of the phylum Ciliophora down to genus level.

Zoothamnium niveum - http://www.sms.si.edu/irlspec/Zootham_niveum.htm
Photographs and information on this colonial protist.

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