| Sessilida | |
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| Zoothamnium niveum | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Clade: | Sar |
| Clade: | Alveolata |
| Phylum: | Ciliophora |
| Class: | Oligohymenophorea |
| Subclass: | Peritrichia |
| Order: | Sessilida Stein, 1833 |
| Families | |
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Sessilida is the largest order of the peritrich ciliates.23
List of families
- Ellobiophryidae
- Epistylididae
- Lagenophryidae
- Operculariidae
- Rovinjellidae
- Scyphidiidae
- Vaginicolidae
- Vorticellidae
- Zoothamniidae
References
References
- https://www.fws.gov/species/ophrydium-ophrydium
- Wang, Zhe; Feng, Xiaoting; Li, Lifang; Al-Rasheid, Khaled A. S.; Warren, Alan; Wang, Chundi; Gu, Zemao (2022-11-24). "New considerations on the phylogeny of Sessilida (Protista: Ciliophora: Peritrichia) based on multiple-gene information, with emphasis on colonial taxa". Marine Life Science & Technology. 4 (4): 569–583. doi:10.1007/s42995-022-00155-w. ISSN 2662-1746. PMC 10077168. PMID 37078081.
- Lu, Borong; Hu, Xiaozhong; Warren, Alan; Song, Weibo; Yan, Ying (July 2023). "From oral structure to molecular evidence: new insights into the evolutionary phylogeny of the ciliate order Sessilida (Protista, Ciliophora), with the establishment of two new families and new contributions to the poorly studied family Vaginicolidae". Science China Life Sciences. 66 (7): 1535–1553. doi:10.1007/s11427-022-2268-2. ISSN 1674-7305.