Familia Uronematidae

Thompson, 1964

Body small, elongate ovoid, sparsely ciliated, with anterior pole conspicuously naked (frontal plate) and one or more caudal cilia at posterior pole; oral ciliature relatively inconspicuous in long and shallow depression, adoral membranelle 1 entirely nonciliferous; scutica bearing cilia. In marine or freshwater habitats, occasionally edaphic.

Planctonic species recorded:

Uronema marinum

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