The ingestion of Paramecium by Didinium. This micrograph also clearly shows the five short rows of clavate cilia (ciliary stubs without central microtubules) that reside just below the anterior and po...

Paramecium multimicronucleatum is covered with cilia which cilia arise from regular surface depressions roughly rectangular in shape. This image is adapted with permission from Fig. 1 in J. Cell Biol....

This high resolution micrograph of Paramecium multimicronucleatum is adapted with permission from Fig. 1 in J. Cell Biol. 49:1-20, 1971. Paramecium is covered with cilia which arise from regular surfa...

Didinium captures Paramecium. At midingestion and showing metachronous waves of cilia within the two characteristic ciliary girdles of Didinium nasutum. This micrograph was taken in 1968 by G. Antipa ...

Didinium captures Paramecium. A moment after initial contact when toxicysts enter Paramecium. The strand of toxicysts can be seen between the two organisms, and Didinium will use the anchored toxicyst...

Didinium ingests Paramecium. Note that Paramecium is folded in half as it is compressed and enters the waiting food vacuole. This micrograph also shows a few discharged Paramecium trichocysts as well ...

Didinium captures Paramecium. A moment after initial contact when toxicysts enter Paramecium. The strand of toxicysts can be seen between the two organisms, and Didinium will use the anchored toxicyst...

Didinium captures Paramecium. A moment after initial contact when toxicysts enter Paramecium. The strand of toxicysts can be seen between the two organisms, and Didinium will use the anchored toxicyst...

Paramecium caudatum is a peniculine oligohymenophoran ciliate that has numerous rows of cilia called kineties that run along the posterior to the anterior axis on the cell’s dorsal side but curve ar...

Didinium intiates capture of Paramecium. Believe-it-or-not, this Didinium may accomplish the ingestion of the Paramecium in less than one minute. See other images in the link below. Also showing metac...