Protist vs Suctorian - What's the difference?
protist | suctorian |
(microbiology) Any of the eukaryotic unicellular organisms including protozoans, slime molds and some algae; historically grouped into the kingdom Protoctista .
# single celled eukaryotes + prokaryotes + sponges
# single-celled eukaryotes + prokaryotes
# single celled eukaryotes
A protist of the subclass Suctoria in the class ; a predatory sessile ciliate.
*2011 , Terence Allen and Graham Cowling, The Cell: A Very Short Introduction , Oxford 2011, p. 11:
*:If the tentacles are touched, the ‘prey’ is instantly paralysed, and the contents of its body are sucked down the tentacle into the body of the suctorian , reducing the prey to a shrivelled husk in a matter of minutes.