Table 3.
Overview of ciliates with symbionts.
| Examples for ciliate genera | ||
|---|---|---|
| Marine, brackish | Freshwater | |
| PHOTOAUTOTROPHIC SYMBIONTS | ||
| Endosymbionts | Codonella | Climacostomum |
| Euplotes | Disematostoma | |
| Laboea | Euplotes | |
| Maristentor Mesodinium | Frontonia | |
| Platyophrya | Ophrydium | |
| Strombidium | Paramecium | |
| Stentor | ||
| Tetrahymena | ||
| Chloroplasts | Laboea | Histiobalantium |
| Mesodinium | Perispira | |
| Prorodon | ||
| Strombidium | ||
| LITHOAUTOTROPHIC SYMBIONTS | ||
| Endosymbiotic methanogens | Caenomorpha | Caenomorpha |
| Metopus | Metopus | |
| Parduzcia | Trimyema | |
| Plagiopyla | ||
| Trimyema | ||
| Ectosymbiotic sulfide oxidizers | Kentrophorus | |
| Zoothamnium | ||
| ORGANOHETEROTROPHIC SYMBIONTS | ||
| Mutualistic endosymbionts | Diophrys | Euplotes |
| Euplotes | Paramecium | |
| Parauronema | ||
| Parduzcia | ||
| Mutualistic ectosymbionts | Euplotidium | |
| Parasitic endosymbionts | Paramecium | |
| Stentor | ||
| Endosymbionts with unknown effects | Euplotes | Frontonia |
| Folliculinopsis | Halteria | |
| Parauronema | Ichthyophthirius | |
| Spirostomum | Paramecium | |
| Spirostomum | ||
| Stentor | ||
| Urotricha | ||
| Ectosymbionts with unknown effects | Geleia | Loxophyllum |
| Paraspathidium | ||
| Tracheloraphis | ||