But the team did see single-celled organisms called ciliates in the sick urchins.

该调查小组确实在患病的海胆中发现了名为毛虫的单细胞生物。

They also found predators on the herbivores, in the form of ciliates and predator bacteria, which feed on other bacteria.

他们还发现食草物的捕食者，如毛虫以及以其他细菌为食的捕食细菌。

Stentor coeruleus is a part of a group called the ciliates.

Stentor coeruleus 是毛虫群的一部分。

As is true of all ciliates, Stentor coeruleus have hair-like structures called cilia.

与所有毛虫一样，Stentor coeruleus 具有称为毛的毛发状结构。

Micronuclei in the ciliates then divide several times in each cell.

然后毛虫中的微核在每个细胞中分裂几次。

This is a Suctorian, it is a ciliate just like Paramecium and Stentor.

这是吸管虫，它是一种毛虫，就像草履虫和 Stentor 一样。

They also found predators on the herbivores, in the form of ciliates (a type of protozoan) and predator bacteria, which feed on other bacteria.

他们还发现了以这些食草物为食的捕食者，存在形式是毛虫（一种原生物）和以其他细菌为食的捕食性细菌。