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Heterotrichea: Heterotrichida: Stentoridae

 Stentor multiformis
(Müller 1786) Ehrenberg 1838

Stentor Species: Cell body slenderly trumpet shaped, 200-500 μm long when fully extended; macronucleus a single bead; cortical granules azure to sea green; withtout symbiotic algae (Foissner and Wölfl, 1994).

Stentor multiformis ??, cell body extended 109 μm long, an oval macronucleus, a contractile vacuole anterior, x 400, x 640, Japan, November 1998, by Y. Tsukii
scale 50 μm scale 100 μm scale 150 μm; x 400 : scale 31 μm scale 63 μm scale 94 μm; x 640
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