Online Encyclopedia
Make a correction
Your email address will not appear on the site. Note, comments may take some time to be approved.
Back to article:
MASTIGOPHORA
Your email:
Article name:
Article content:
MASTIGOPHORA, a group of Protozoa, moving and ingesting food by long flagella (Gr. isav-rc , whip), usually few in number, and multiplying by fission, usually longitudinal, in the active condition. They were separated off from the rest of the old " Infusoria " by K. Diising, and subdivided by O. Biitschli and E. R. Lankester into (I) Flagellata (q.v.), including Haemoflagellata (q.v.), (2) Dinoflagellata (q.v.) and Rhyncho = Cystoflagellata E. Haeckel (q.v.) = Rhynchoflagellata E. R. Lankester. The Mastigophora are frequently termed Flagellata or Flagellates.