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Heterotrichea: Heterotrichida: Stentoridae

 Stentor fuliginosus
Forbes 1891

Stentor fuliginosus Species: Cell body 200-300 μm long when fully extended; a single macronucleus and several micronuclei; cortical and cytoplasmic granules yellow-brown or red-orange coloured; with symbiotic green algae (Foissner and Wölfl, 1994).

Stentor fuliginosus, with endosymbiotic algae, cell body 280 μm long, 124 μm wide, x 200, x 400, x 640, Ushidome-ike (pond), Norikura highland, Azumi village, Nagano Pref., Japan, May 28, 2005 by Y. Tsukii
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