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Heterotrichea: Heterotrichida: Stentoridae

Stentor roeseli
Ehrenberg 1835

Stentor roeseli Species: 0.5-1 mm long; anterior end expanded; body surface with groups of longer cilia; posterior portion drawn out and often within a gelatinous tube (lorica); macronucleus long band-form (Kudo, 1966). Body attenuated, peristome widely expanded, attains 0.5-1.0 mm; peristome has no central raised dome; somatic bristles present; gelatinous lorica; macronucleus moniliform but usually observed as a long rod; colourless (Carey, 1992).


Stentor roeseli with long band-form macronucleus, contracted and flattened, cell body 430 μm long, x 200 & x 400, Japan, 1997 by Y. Tsukii
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