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J. Grain, F. Iftode, and Ghislaine Fryd-Versavel; [Etude des Infraciliatures Somatique et Buccale de Bryophrya bavariensis et Considerations Systematiques]. Protistologica XV(4):581-595, 1979
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The somatic cortex of Bryophora bavariensis has large alveoles, with various inclusions, and a thick epiplasmic layer; the pattern of fibrillar derivates of the pairs of kinetosomes is similar to the Colpodidae's one. The buccal overture is lined, on the right side, by three vestibular kineties, the organization of which is almost like the somatic kineties. The buccal cavity is covered, on the right side, by a ciliary field composed of numerous regular longitudinal kineties, and on the left side by a ciliary "palette" composed of short oblique kineties. In its anterior part, the palette is continued by small groups of few kineties; these groups are called "paves". Paves and palette have postciliary fibers for every kinetosomes. The right buccal field can be considered as homologous of the right fields of Colpodidae, while the system paves + palette is homologous of the left field of Colpodidae and of the left organelles of Woodruffia, Kuklikophrya and Platyophora. The genus Bryophrya would belong to the super-order Colpodidea de Puytorac et coll., order Colpodida, suborder Bryophryina de Puytorac et coll., 1979.