All Ciliate Classes (Ciliophora)

Ciliate Classes (Ciliophora) is a Browse By group of the Nature Atlas that gathers the classes of ciliates, single-celled organisms of the phylum Ciliophora that are covered in hair-like cilia, including historical classes that modern systematics no longer uses, such as Kinetofragminophora, set up in 1974 and now regarded as an obsolete grouping. An entry belongs here when its own cited article describes a class of ciliates. It excludes the classes of algae, bacteria, archaea, fungi, plants and animals, which have groups of their own. The group lets a reader follow how the classification of these single-celled organisms has changed as new evidence has appeared.