Metopus

Phylum: Ciliophora

Order: Metopida

Family: Metopidae

Genus: Metopus

 

The genus Metopus are characterized by torsion of the anterior part of the cell, and a frontal lobe which overhangs an obliquely ascending adoral zone of membranelles. The anterior twisting often gives Metopus a characteristic S-shape.

 

Reproduction is primarily asexual, by binary fission, but sexual reproduction also occurs by conjugation, a process by which two organisms exchange nuclear material.

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