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Heterotrichea: Heterotrichida: Stentoridae

Stentor roeseli
Ehrenberg 1835

Stentor polymorphus 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 sp., cell body μm long, μm wide, macronucleus band-form (?), somatic bristles absent, x 640, Kamigo ni-ku, Kaminokawa town, Tochigi Pref., Japan, May 4, 2004 by Y. Tsukii
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