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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 320 μm long, 90 μm wide, L/W=3.6, x 200, x 400, x 640, Iroha-numa (marsh), Zao mountain, Yamagata city, Yamagata Pref., Japan, July 9, 2005 by Y. Tsukii
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