Global InformationOpercularia ampluscolonia information
| Opercularia ampluscolonia | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| (unranked): | SAR
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| Phylum: | Ciliophora
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| Class: | Oligohymenophorea
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| Order: | Sessilida
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| Family: | Operculariidae
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| Genus: | Opercularia
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| Species: | O. ampluscolonia
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| Binomial name | |
| Opercularia ampluscolonia | |
Opercularia ampluscolonia is a species of freshwater, colonial, sessiline peritrich ciliates. This species produces a branched stalk that is often delicately striate in a longitudinal direction. There can be more than ninety-seven zooids per branched stalk. Zooids reproduce asexually and form dense clusters at the ends of each branch. This filter-feeding protist inhabits ponds in Mendocino County, California.