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Vorticella (Ciliata)
These bell-shaped ciliates live in fresh or salt water attached by a slender, unciliated stalk to aquatic plants, surface scum, submerged objects, or aquatic animals. Vorticella eat bacteria and small protozoans, using their cilia to sweep prey into their mouth-like openings.