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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Clade: | Diaphoretickes |
| Clade: | SAR |
| Clade: | Alveolata |
| Phylum: | Ciliophora |
| Class: | Oligohymenophorea |
| Order: | Sessilida |
| Family: | Vorticellidae Ehrenberg, 1838 |
Vorticellidae is a family of ciliates belonging to the order Sessilida. They are colonial or unicellular organisms that are attached to a substrate via a stalk. The distinguishing characteristic of the family is a helical spasmoneme within the stalk that is contractile.
Members of this family are common in marine, freshwater, and terrestrial habitats around the world.
Genera
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Genera:
- Anthochloe Joseph, 1882
- Apocarchesium Ji & Kusuoka, 2009
- Baikalaster Jankowski, 1986
- Baikalonis Jankowski, 1982
- Carchesium Ehrenberg, 1831
- Cotensita Jankowski, 1982
- Epicarchesium Jankowski, 1985
- Intranstylum Fauré-Fremiet, 1904
- Parazoothamnium Piesik, 1975
- Pelagovorticella Jankowski, 1980
- Piesika Warren, 1988
- Planeticovorticella Clamp & Coats, 2000
- Pseudovorticella Foissner & Schiffmann, 1975
- Rugaecaulis Lom & de Puytorac, 1994
- Ruthiella Schödel, 1983
- Spinivorticella Jankowski, 1993
- Tucolesca Lom in Corliss, 1979
- Vorticella Linnaeus, 1767
- Vorticellides Foissner, Blake, Wolf, Breiner & Stoeck, 2009
References
- ^ "Vorticellidae". www.gbif.org. Retrieved 27 June 2021.
- ^ Sun, Ping; Clamp, John C.; Xu, Dapeng; Kusuoka, Yasushi; Hori, Manabu (2011). "Molecular phylogeny of the family Vorticellidae (Ciliophora, Peritrichia) using combined datasets with a special emphasis on the three morphologically similar genera Carchesium, Epicarchesium and Apocarchesium". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 61 (4): 1001–1010. doi:10.1099/ijs.0.020255-0. PMID 20495029.
- Lynn, Denis H., ed. (2008), "The Ciliate Taxa Including Families and Genera", The Ciliated Protozoa: Characterization, Classification, and Guide to the Literature, Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, p. 433, doi:10.1007/978-1-4020-8239-9_17, ISBN 978-1-4020-8239-9, retrieved 2023-08-22
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