Heterotrichea:
Heterotrichida: Stentoridae
Stentor pyriformis
Johnson 1893
Species:
Cell body broadly trumpet shaped, up to 700 μm long when fully extended;
macronucleus consists of two (rarely one, three, four or five) isolated beads;
cortical granules colourless; with symbiotic green algae
(Foissner and Wölfl, 1994).
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Stentor pyriformis Johnson 1893, with endosymbiotic algae,
cell body μm long, μm wide, L/W=,
x 640, a small pond at Kinunuma marsh, Nikko city, Tochigi Pref., Japan, July 8, 2010, by Y. Tsukii
This sample was collected at Kinu-numa marsh (Sample No.21, Nikko city, Tochigi Prefecture, July, 2010)
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Photos and a movie by binocular microscope (x 10).
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Photos and a movie by binocular microscope (x 40).
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Photos and a movie by binocular microscope (x 40).
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Images of collecting locality:
No.21, Kinu-numa marsh, Nikko city, Tochigi Pref., Japan, Juny 18, 2010, by Y. Tsukii
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