contracted
Description:
Vorticella (vort-ee-sell-ah) is a peritrich ciliate with a contractile stalk which attaches the cell to the substrate. This is a contracted cell and the feeding cilia have been withdrawn into the cell, Phase contrast. Material from Nymph Creek and Nymph Lake, thermal sites in Yellowstone National Park, photograph by Kathy Sheehan and David Patterson.
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- Life (creatures)
- Cellular (cellular organisms)
- Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
- SAR (Stramenopiles, Alveolates, Rhizaria)
- Alveolata (alveolates)
- Ciliophora (ciliates)
- Intramacronucleata
- Oligohymenophorea
- Peritrichia
- Sessilida
- Vorticellidae
- Vorticella (bell animalcules)
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