motility vs. mobility

[lamb]

Fred Pruyn wrote:

> Who knows why the capability of moving of bacteria is called motility and
> not as usual mobility? Is there something special to their movement?
>
> I hope there some real linguistics present in these ng's.
>
> Besides that A fruitful New Year!
>
> Fred Pruyn, The Netherlands

Fred !!!It's only in the English language that they're called motile!

Loes