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Family VORTICELLIDAE Ehrenberg, 1838
Syn. Zoothamniidae

With contractile stalk; all species colonial except in two genera (Haplocaulus, Vorticella); zooids not independently contractile among colonial forms (except in Carchesium); species all attached - to inanimate objects, plants, rotifers, crustaceans (amphipods, decapods, etc.), even turtles, etc. - in various fresh-water and marine habitats.

Carchesium Ehrenberg, 1830.
Several to many species.
IV 16b
Entziella Stiller, 1951.
Single species.
Haplocaulus Precht, 1935.
Many species.
Intranstylum Fauré-Fremiet, 1904
(syn. Intrastylum).
Several species.
Myoschiston Precht, 1935.
Several species.
Parazoothamnium Piesik, 1975.
Single species.
Pseudocarchesium Sommer, 1951.
Several species.
Rugaecaulis Lom [unpublished].
Single species.
Tucolesca Lom, n. n.
(for Leptodiscus Tucolesco, 1962
[hom. of Leptodiscus Hertwig, 1877
(dinoflagellate)] ).
Single (and type-) species,
T. mirabilis (Tucolesco, 1962) n. comb.
Vorticella Linnaeus, 1767
(syn. Vorticellopsis).
Very many (well over 150 described:
but all bonafide?) species.
IV 16a



Zoothamnium Bory de St. Vincent, 1826
(syn. Zoothamnia).
Very many (ca. 50) species.
Incertae sedis:
Craspedomyoschiston Precht, 1935,
single species;
Monintranstylum Banina, 1976,
single species;
Pseudovorticella Foissner & Schiffmann, 1975,
few species.