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Oligohymenophorea: Peritrichia: Sessilida: Vorticellidae

Vorticella cylindrica
Dons

Family: Solitary, gregarious, or colonial; most are aloricate, some form lorica; each zooid has its own, independently contractile myoneme in full length of stalk.
Genus: Solitary, but often gregarious; myoneme continuous within full length of stalk (Illustrated Guide, 1985).

Species: Cell body 43 μm long (Kahl, 1930).
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Vorticella
V. cylindrica
44 x μm
stalk long
Matsumoto
Nagano, 2001
Vorticella cylindrica
V. cylindrica
35 x 42 μm
Kumakubo
Nasu-shiobara
Tochigi, 2005
Vorticella
V. cylindrica ?
94 μm
Ichikawa
Chiba, 2001
Vorticella cylindrica
V. cylindrica ?
94 μm
Shin-Akitsu
Higashi-Murayama
Tokyo, 2004

Similar Genus ->> Carchesium
Similar Species (cell length μm) -> V. ();


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Vorticella cylindrica
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