Animalcule ("little animal", from Latin animal + the diminutive suffix -culum) is an older term for a microscopic animal or protozoan. Protozoa (in Greek πρῶτον proton "first" and ζῷα zoia "animals" are unicellular Eukaryotes (singular Some better-known animalcules include:
- Rotifers, called wheel animalcules
- Paramecium, called slipper animalcules
- Stentor, called trumpet animalcules
- Vorticella, and other peritrichs, called bell animalcules
- Actinophrys, and other heliozoa, called sun animalcules
- Amoeba, called proteus animalcules
The term was used by Anton van Leeuwenhoek, the 17th-century preformationist and discoverer of microorganisms, to describe spermatozoa and the homunculi he believed they contained. The rotifers make up a Phylum of microscopic and near-microscopic pseudocoelomate Animals They were first described by Rev Paramecia are a group of Unicellular Ciliate Protozoa formerly known as “slipper Animalcules from their Slipper shape are commonly Stentor are a group of filter feeders and diggers a Genius of Ciliate Protozoa, representative of the Heterotrichs The body is generally Vorticella is a genus of Protozoa, with over 100 known species The peritrichs are a large and distinctive group of Ciliate Protozoa. The actinophryids are a small familiar group of Heliozoan protists Heliozoa, or sun Animalcules are roughly spherical Amoeboids with many stiff Microtubule -supported projections called Axopods radiating outward Amoeba (sometimes amœba or ameba, plural amoebae) is a Genus of Protozoa that moves In Greek mythology, Proteus (Πρωτεύς is an early sea-god one of several deities whom Homer calls the "Old Man of the Sea" whose name suggests the Antonie Philips van Leeuwenhoek (October 24 1632 &ndash August 30 1723 was a Dutch tradesman and Scientist from Delft, the Netherlands Preformationism is the theory that all Organisms were created at the same time and that succeeding generations grow from homunculi, Animalcules or other A spermatozoon or spermatozoan ( pl spermatozoa) from the Ancient Greek σπέρμα (seed and ζῷον (living being and more commonly known The concept of a homunculus ( Latin for "little man" plural "homunculi" the diminutive of homo, "man" is often used to illustrate
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