Vorticella convallaria

Vorticella convallaria
	Vorticella convallaria
Systematics
without rank:	Conthreep
without rank:	Oligohymenophorea
Order :	Sessilida
Family :	Bell animals (Vorticellidae)
Genre :	Vorticella
Type :	Vorticella convallaria
Scientific name
	Vorticella convallaria
	( Linnaeus , 1758)

Vorticella convallaria , also known as "lily of the valley", is a single-celled cell from the family of bells (Vorticellidae). The species can be found in more polluted waters of water quality class III, where it lives stuck together as a gray-white coating on stones and other substrates in colony-like groups. It feeds on bacteria .

features

Vorticella campanula is 50 to 95 micrometers in size and slender-bell-shaped. The body is slightly drawn in behind the peristome disk , the style is thin and may contain granules of secretion. It contracts in spirals. The species does not form colonies, but lives together in groups similar to colony.

Individual evidence

^ ^A ^b Heinz Streble , Dieter Krauter : Life in the water drop. Microflora and microfauna of freshwater. An identification book. 9th, revised and expanded edition. Kosmos, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-440-08431-0 , p. 248.

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[Wassertropfen-1] A ^b Heinz Streble , Dieter Krauter : Life in the water drop. Microflora and microfauna of freshwater. An identification book. 9th, revised and expanded edition. Kosmos, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-440-08431-0 , p. 248.