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, No.2, Yokotashiro, Oze-ga-hara (Oze marsh), Katashina village, Gunma Pref., Japan, October 6, 2007 by Y. Tsukii
50 μm
100 μm
150 μm; x 400 :
31 μm
63 μm
94 μm; x 640
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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