Ophrydium

Phylum: Ciliophora

Class: Oligohymenophorea

Order: Peritrichida

Family: Ophrydiidae

Genus: Ophrydium

 

Ophrydium form colonies that look like blobs or jellyfish, these blobs are made up of tiny cells that line up side by side the blobs are green because they contain symbiotic algae called zoochlorellae.

 

The ones with posterior skirts of cilia are transforming into their migratory form these are called telotrochs. As it grows it's skirts of cillia, the cell changes shape and its mouth closes up, it then swims away to a new location.

 

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