Tentaculoids

Tentaculoids

Taxonomic markers

ciliate

Definition

Tentaculoids are small, finger-like, and possibly contractile cytoplasmic extensions between the collar membranelles (Corliss 1979, Laval-Peuto and Brownlee 1986). The term was introduced by Haeckel
(1873). Agatha and Riedel-Lorjé (2006)