The Nassophorea are a class of ciliate protozoa. Members are free-living, usually in freshwater but also in marine and soil environments. The mouth is anterior ventral and leads to a curved cytopharynx supported by a prominent palisade of rods or nematodesmata, forming a structure called a cyrtos or nasse, typical of this and a few other classes. ...
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(from the article `protozoan`) ...suctorians, which lack cilia in the trophic stage and feed via tentacles, and the chonotrichs, which are usually sessile ectosymbionts of ...
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