Thus the Infusoria, including the Ciliata and the Suctoria, are usually littoral in their habitat, living upon the shore-dwelling, or attached, water plants and upon the animals frequenting them. From Wordnik.com. [Marine Protozoa from Woods Hole Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission 21:415-468, 1901] Reference
Paramecium caudatum, also known as Silverslipper, is a pretty typical member of the group of Ciliata, and as the poem correctly indicates, most of the time it reproduces by simple cell division - fission. From Wordnik.com. [ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science] Reference
Infusoria (Ciliata, Acineta, &c.), and many other Protista, remain throughout life one single cell, and, nevertheless, this cell is as fully furnished with all the most important attributes of the soul, with sensation and volition, as any one of the higher animals with a nervous system. From Wordnik.com. [Freie wissenschaft und freie lehr. English] Reference
Voluntary motion and conscious sensation (of pressure, light, warmth, &c.) come under our observation so undoubtedly in the commonest forms of infusorial animals -- for instance the Ciliata, that one of their most persevering observers, Ehrenberg, asserted undeviatingly to the day of his death that all Infusoria must possess nerves and muscles, organs of sense and of soul, as well as the higher animals. From Wordnik.com. [Freie wissenschaft und freie lehr. English] Reference
Ciliata. From Wordnik.com. [Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology] Reference
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