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Heterotrichea: Heterotrichida: Stentoridae

Stentor fuliginosus
Forbes 1891

Stentor Species: Cell body broadly trumpet shaped, up to 700 μm long when fully extended; macronucleus consists of two (rarely one, three, four or five) isolated beads; cortical granules colourless; with symbiotic green algae (Foissner and Wölfl, 1994).


Stentor fuliginosus Forbes 1891, algal endosymbionts present, cell body μm long, μm wide, L/W=, x 640, a small pond near Yamakado marsh (Yamakado-Suigen-no-Mori), Nishi-Azai town, Shiga Pref., Japan, June 30, 2008, by Y. Tsukii
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Images of collecting locality: A small pond near Yamakado marsh (Yamakado-Suigen-no-Mori), Nishi-Azai town, Shiga Pref., Japan, June 30, 2008, by Y. Tsukii


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