plagiopyla plagiopyla plagiopyla is a genus of ciliates. it includes nine species: plagiopyla scientific classification domain: eukaryota (unranked): sar (unranked): alveolata phylum: ciliophora class: plagiopylea order: plagiopylida family: plagiopylidaeschewiakoff, 1896 genus: plagiopylastein, 1860 species plagiopyla binucleata agamaliev, 1978 plagiopyla cucullio quennerstedt, 1867 plagiopyla simplex wetzel, 1928 plagiopyla frontata kahl, 1935 plagiopyla marina kahl 1933 plagiopyla megastoma (smith, 1898) plagiopyla minuta powers, 1933 plagiopyla nasuta stein, 1860 plagiopyla ovata kahl, 1931 plagiopyla vestita kahl, 1935 plagiopyla nyctotherus poljansky & golikova, 1959 plagiopyla stenostoma alekperov & asadullayeva, 1996 plagiopyla ramani nitla et al., 2019 plagiopyla narasimhamurtii nitla et al., 2019 plagiopyla mystax comb. nov. nitla et al., 2019 https://academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/article-abstract/186/1/1/5095288 worms (2009). "plagiopylidae". world ciliophora database. world register of marine species. archived from the original on august 8, 2014. retrieved june 1, 2010. t. stoeck, w. foissner & d. h. lynn (2007). "small-subunit rrna phylogenies suggest that epalxella antiquorum (penard, 1922) corliss, 1960 (ciliophora, odontostomatida) is a member of the plagyopylea". journal of eukaryotic microbiology. 54 (5): 436–442. doi:10.1111/j.1550-7408.2007.00283.x. pmid 17910688. s2cid 947032. r. großkopf, p. h. janssen & w. liesack (march 1998). "diversity and structure of the methanogenic community in anoxic rice paddy soil microcosms as examined by cultivation and direct 16s rrna gene sequence retrieval". applied and environmental microbiology. 64 (3): 960–969. bibcode:1998apenm..64..960g. doi:10.1128/aem.64.3.960-969.1998. pmc 106352. pmid 9501436. worms (2009). "plagiopyla stein, 1860". world ciliophora database. world register of marine species. retrieved june 1, 2010.