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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).
Other endosymbioses


Stentor muelleri (Müller) Ehrenberg ?, stock Skk-11, cell body μm long, μm wide, x 640, Koaze river, Kawagoe city, Saitama Pref., Japan, March 2002 by Y. Tsukii
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