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Heterotrichea: Heterotrichida: Stentoridae

Stentor pyriformis
Johnson 1893

Stentor pyriformis 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).


Stentor pyriformis Johnson 1893, with endosymbiotic algae, cell body μm long, μm wide, L/W=, x 640, No.2, Yokotashiro, Oze-ga-hara (Oze marsh), Katashina village, Gunma Pref., Japan, October 6, 2007 by Y. Tsukii
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Images of collecting locality: No.2, Yokotashiro, Oze-ga-hara (Oze marsh), Katashina village, Gunma Pref., Japan, October 6, 2007 by Y. Tsukii


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