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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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    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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  • 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 forms part of the V. convallaria species complex. V. citrina is lemon yellow to light green in colour...
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  • Ctenophila vorticella is a species of small air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Euconulidae, the hive snails...
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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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    two types of tintinnids and a possible ancestral suctorian. A fossil Vorticella has been discovered inside a leech cocoon from the Triassic period, about...
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    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)...
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    Syncopacma cinctella (Clerck, 1759) Synonyms Phalaena vorticella Scopoli, 1763 Syncopacma vorticella (Scopoli, 1763) Phalaena cinctella Clerck, 1759 Phalaena...
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