Suctoria
Translingual
Suctoria
Etymology
They were originally thought to feed by suction.
Proper noun
Suctoria
- A taxonomic subclass within the phylum Ciliophora – ciliates which become sessile in their developed stage and then lose their redundant cilia and feed by extracellular digestion..[1]
Hypernyms
- (genus): Eukaryota - superkingdom; Chromista - kingdom; Harosa - subkingdom; Halvaria - infrakingdom; Alveolata - superphylum; Ciliophora - phylum; Intramacronucleata - subphylum; Phyllopharyngea - class[1]
Hyponyms
- (genus): Exogenida, Endogenida, Evaginogenida - orders[1]
References
Suctoria on Wikipedia.Wikipedia 
Suctoria on Wikispecies.Wikispecies 
Suctoria on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons - Suctoria at World Register of Marine Species
- Suctoria at Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
- Suctoria at Encyclopedia of Life
- Suctoria at National Center for Biotechnology Information
- Ruggiero MA, Gordon DP, Orrell TM, Bailly N, Bourgoin T, Brusca RC, et al. (2015) A Higher Level Classification of All Living Organisms. PLoS ONE 10(4): e0119248. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0119248. pmid:25923521