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Antique engraved illustration of a bell animalcule. Vintage illustration of Vorticella. Old picture. Book illustration

Antique engraved illustration of a bell animalcule. Vintage illustration of Vorticella. Old picture. Book illustration published 1907. Vorticella is a genus of bell-shaped ciliates that have stalks to attach themselves to substrates. The stalks have contractile myonemes, allowing them to pull the cell body against substrates. The formation of the stalk happens after the free-swimming stage.