Description of Pleuronematidae
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Pleuronematine scuticociliate, oral polykinetid 2, typically as two distinct segments, an anterior segment, long, linear, with no more than 2 files of zig-zag kinetosomes, and a posterior segment, typically V-shaped; prominent postequatorial velum; with long, stiff, caudal cilia.
