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Heterotrichea: Heterotrichida: Stentoridae

Stentor muelleri
Ehrenberg 1831

Stentor Species: Cell body slenderly trumpet shaped, 500-1000 μm long when fully extended; macronucleus moniliform (10-20 macronuclear beads); cortical granules colourless; without symbiotic green algae (Foissner and Wölfl, 1994).


Stentor (polymorphus or roeseli ?), cell body μm long, macronucleus intermediate between moniliform and band form, bristles only at anterior region, x 200, x 400, x 640, Japan, December 1998, by Y. Tsukii
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