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Vorticella
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Protsville drawings of freshwater protists
| Description of Vorticella: As with the majority of peritrich ciliates, Vorticella has a bell-shaped body and attached to the substrate by means of a stalk. The stalk is contractile, there is an inner element called the spasmoneme that can contract very rapidly. Contractile elements also extend into the body of the cell so the body rounds up when the cell contracts. Normally, there is a wreath of feeding cilia at the unattached end of the cell, and these create a water current from which small particles of food (mostly bacteria) can be removed and ingested. Vorticella cells usually reproduce by forming a daughter cell that has a basal wreath of cilia. This cell breaks away from the parent, and swims around as a cylindrical telotroch larva. Eventually it settles, attached by the back end, withdraws the basal wreath of cilia, secretes the stalk and changes into a more conical shape. Occasionally, when conditions are not satisfactory, cells may sprout a basal wreath of cilia, break away from their stalk, and swim around settling at another location. This is a solitary species, in that the cells do not form colonies, although it is not unusual to find many individual Vorticella cells living side-by-side and to form a cluster. The behavior of contracting is quite distinctive and because of this, we know that this is one of the first free-living protozoa to be described (by Antony van Leeuwenhoek in the 17th century). |
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Vorticella in other collections
Vorticella, from
Freshwater and Terrestrial Microbes of Idaho (USA) and Elsewhere
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Phascolodon vorticella, from
Freshwater and Terrestrial Microbes of Idaho (USA) and Elsewhere
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Pseudovorticella monilata, from
Freshwater and Terrestrial Microbes of Idaho (USA) and Elsewhere
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Phascolodon vorticella, from
Freshwater and Terrestrial Microbes of Idaho (USA) and Elsewhere
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Phascolodon vorticella, from
Freshwater and Terrestrial Microbes of Idaho (USA) and Elsewhere
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Phascolodon vorticella, from
Freshwater and Terrestrial Microbes of Idaho (USA) and Elsewhere
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Phascolodon vorticella, from
Freshwater and Terrestrial Microbes of Idaho (USA) and Elsewhere
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Phascolodon vorticella, from
Freshwater and Terrestrial Microbes of Idaho (USA) and Elsewhere
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Phascolodon vorticella, from
Freshwater and Terrestrial Microbes of Idaho (USA) and Elsewhere
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Condylostoma vorticella, from
Protozoan biomonitors in China
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Paravorticella, from
Protozoan biomonitors in China
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Pseudovorticella monilata, from
Protozoan biomonitors in China
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Vorticella aequilata, from
Protozoan biomonitors in China
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Vorticella alba, from
Protozoan biomonitors in China
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Vorticella campanula, from
Protozoan biomonitors in China
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Vorticella convallaria, from
Protozoan biomonitors in China
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Vorticella cupifera, from
Protozoan biomonitors in China
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Vorticella elongata, from
Protozoan biomonitors in China
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Vorticella extensa, from
Protozoan biomonitors in China
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Vorticella fromenteli, from
Protozoan biomonitors in China
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Vorticella hamata, from
Protozoan biomonitors in China
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Vorticella microstoma, from
Protozoan biomonitors in China
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Vorticella myeri, from
Protozoan biomonitors in China
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Vorticella octava, from
Protozoan biomonitors in China
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Vorticella picta, from
Protozoan biomonitors in China
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Vorticella putrina, from
Protozoan biomonitors in China
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Vorticella similis, from
Protozoan biomonitors in China
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Vorticella striata, from
Protozoan biomonitors in China
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Vorticella vernalis, from
Protozoan biomonitors in China
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Vorticella vestita, from
Protozoan biomonitors in China
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Vorticella, from
Microbes of Mammoth Lake
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Vorticella, from
Anaerobic and micro-aerophilic protozoa
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Vorticella convallaria, from
Activated sludge - sewage treatment
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Vorticella convallaria, from
Images of Richard Allen
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Pseudovorticella pattersoni, from
Protsville
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Pseudovorticella pattersoni, from
Protsville
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Vorticella microstoma, from
Lake Pontchartrain microbes
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Vorticella, from
Limnic and marine Protists of Northern Germany and the Alps
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Vorticella, from
Limnic and marine Protists of Northern Germany and the Alps
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Vorticella, from
Limnic and marine Protists of Northern Germany and the Alps
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Vorticella, from
SML Intertidal Pool
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Vorticella, from
SML North Pond
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Phascolodon vorticella, from
Images from Schewiakoff, 1896
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Phascolodon vorticella, from
Images from Schewiakoff, 1896
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Pseudovorticella nebulifera, from
Ciliates from Ehrenberg -- 1838
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Pseudovorticella nebulifera, from
Ciliates from Ehrenberg -- 1838
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Vorticella citrina, from
Ciliates from Ehrenberg -- 1838
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Vorticella microstoma, from
Ciliates from Ehrenberg -- 1838
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Vorticella microstoma, from
Ciliates from Ehrenberg -- 1838
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Vorticella campanula, from
Ciliates from Ehrenberg -- 1838
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Vorticella campanula, from
Ciliates from Ehrenberg -- 1838
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Vorticella campanula, from
Ciliates from Ehrenberg -- 1838
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Vorticella hamata, from
Ciliates from Ehrenberg -- 1838
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Vorticella chlorostigma, from
Ciliates from Ehrenberg -- 1838
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Vorticella patellina, from
Ciliates from Ehrenberg -- 1838
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Vorticella patellina, from
Ciliates from Ehrenberg -- 1838
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Vorticella convallaria, from
Ciliates from Ehrenberg -- 1838
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Vorticella picta, from
Ciliates from Ehrenberg -- 1838
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Linostomella vorticella, from
Ciliates from Ehrenberg -- 1838
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Linostomella vorticella, from
Ciliates from Ehrenberg -- 1838
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Linostomella vorticella, from
Ciliates from Ehrenberg -- 1838
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Phascolodon vorticella, from
Freshwater and Terrestrial Microbes of Idaho (USA) and Elsewhere
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Pseudovorticella chlamydophora, from
Freshwater and Terrestrial Microbes of Idaho (USA) and Elsewhere
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Pseudovorticella chlamydophora, from
Freshwater and Terrestrial Microbes of Idaho (USA) and Elsewhere
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Vorticella citrina, from
Freshwater and Terrestrial Microbes of Idaho (USA) and Elsewhere
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Vorticella citrina, from
Freshwater and Terrestrial Microbes of Idaho (USA) and Elsewhere
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Phascolodon vorticella, from
Freshwater and Terrestrial Microbes of Idaho (USA) and Elsewhere
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Pseudovorticella chlamydophora, from
Freshwater and Terrestrial Microbes of Idaho (USA) and Elsewhere
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Vorticella, from
American Type Culture Collection
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Phascolodon vorticella, from
Freshwater and Terrestrial Microbes of Idaho (USA) and Elsewhere
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Pseudovorticella chlamydophora, from
Freshwater and Terrestrial Microbes of Idaho (USA) and Elsewhere
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Phascolodon vorticella, from
Freshwater and Terrestrial Microbes of Idaho (USA) and Elsewhere
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Pseudovorticella monilata, from
Freshwater and Terrestrial Microbes of Idaho (USA) and Elsewhere
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Phascolodon vorticella, from
Freshwater and Terrestrial Microbes of Idaho (USA) and Elsewhere
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Vorticella, from
Cumloden, Massachusetts, USA
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Vorticella, from
Cumloden, Massachusetts, USA
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Vorticella convallaria, from
Kunstforme der Natur by Ernst Haeckel
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Vorticella, from
Audley Bottom
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Vorticella, from
Lake Toolik, Arctic Alaska
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Vorticella, from
American Type Culture Collection
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Pseudovorticella monilata, from
Freshwater and Terrestrial Microbes of Idaho (USA) and Elsewhere
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Vorticella, from
Prawn Farm, Queensland, Australia
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Vorticella, from
Lake Toolik, Arctic Alaska
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Pseudovorticella monilata, from
Freshwater and Terrestrial Microbes of Idaho (USA) and Elsewhere
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Vorticella, from
Athens, Georgia, USA
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Vorticella, from
Yellowstone National Park (Wyoming, USA)
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Vorticella, from
Lake Toolik, Arctic Alaska
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Vorticella, from
American Type Culture Collection
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