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Vorticella is a
genus of bell-shaped
ciliates that have
stalks to
attach themselves to substrates. The
stalks have
contractile myonemes,
allowing them...
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protozoon Vorticella campanula is
found in
freshwater ponds, lakes, rivers, and
streams with
aquatic vegetation. It has a
global distribution.
Vorticella campanula...
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Vorticella convallaria is a
species of ciliates. It is the type
species of the
genus Vorticella. It
resembles V. campanula, but
differs in
being somewhat...
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Ctenophila vorticella is a
species of
small air-breathing land snails,
terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the
family Euconulidae, the hive snails...
- Rotifers,
termed wheel animalcules. Stentor,
termed trumpet animalcules.
Vorticella, and
other peritrichs,
termed bell animalcules. The
concept seems to have...
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similar genus Carchesium in
which the
stalks are
contractile like
those in
Vorticella.
Roberto Júnio
Pedroso Dias,
Sthefane D`Ávila and
Marta D`Agosto (2006)...
- two
types of
tintinnids and a
possible ancestral suctorian. A
fossil Vorticella has been
discovered inside a
leech cocoon from the Tri****ic period, about...
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particles from
their environment.
Examples range from the
microscopic Vorticella up to the
basking shark, one of the
largest fishes, and the
baleen whales...
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Vorticella convallaria is a
species of ciliates. It
forms part of the V.
convallaria species complex. V.
citrina is
lemon yellow to
light green in colour...
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either solitary or
produce branched colonies. A few
secrete a lorica.
Vorticella is one of the best-known genera.
Stalks may be as long as 2 mm, and in...
