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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 contracted, 250 μm long, 190 μm wide, L/W=1.3, x 200, x 400, x 640, Mida-ga-hara (bog), Gassan (mountain), Haguro & Tachikawa town, Yamagata Pref., Japan, July 10, 2005 by Y. Tsukii
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