Heterotrichea: Heterotrichida: Heterotrichina: Stentoridae

Stentor
Oken, 1815

Genus: When extended, trumpet-shaped or cylindrical; highly contractile; some with mucilaginous lorica; conspicuous peristomal field frontal; contractile vacuole anterior-left; fresh water (Kudo, 1966).

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