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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 roeseli ?, extended cell body 640 μm long, peristome 120 μm wide, x 100, x 200, x 400, x 640, near Oh-hashi (large bridge), Asa-kawa (Asa river), Hachioji city, Tokyo, Japan, March 26, 2005 by Y. Tsukii
scale 200 μm scale 400 μm scale 600 μm; x 100
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