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CiliophoraThe ciliates. One of the most familiar groups of
protozoa, distinguished by usually having many cilia lying in
rows on the body and used for movement, sometimes with more
cilia around the mouth and used for feeding. Typically between
10 and 500 microns in length. One of the characteristics that is
very unusual is that ciliates have two kinds of nuclei - diploid
micronuclei and selectively polyplopid macronuclei within each
cell.