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Heterotrichea: Heterotrichida: Heterotrichina: Stentoridae

Stentor coeruleus
Ehrenberg, 1830

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).
Species: Body trumpet-shaped; macronucleus moniliform; 1-2 mm when extended; contractile vacuole anterior; pellicle dark, bluish-green color (How to know the protozoa, 1979).
Cell body slenderly trumpet shaped, 1000-2000 μm long when fully extended; macronucleus moniliform; cortical granules blue-green; without symbiotic algae (Foissner and Wölfl, 1994).
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Stentor
S. coeruleus
mac. moniliform
no bristles
μm
Japan, 1999
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Stentor coeruleus
S. coeruleus
μm
Niigata, 2001
Stentor coeruleus
S. coeruleus
mac. moniliform
μm
Gyoda
Saitama, 2001
Stentor coeruleus
S. coeruleus
mac. moniliform
μm
Kasai Seaside Park
Tokyo, 2001
Stentor coeruleus
S. coeruleus
mac. moniliform
μm
Sendabori
Chiba, 2002
Stentor coeruleus
S. coeruleus
stock Ika-1
mac. moniliform
μm
Kasama Park
Ibaraki, 2002
Stentor coeruleus
S. coeruleus
stock Ika-1
mac. moniliform
μm
Kasama Park
Ibaraki, 2002
Stentor coeruleus
S. coeruleus
mac. moniliform
μm
???
???, 2003

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Stentor coeruleus
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