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Heterotrichea: Heterotrichida: Stentoridae

Stentor muelleri
Ehrenberg 1831

Stentor muelleri Species: Cell body slenderly trumpet shaped, 500-1000 μm long when fully extended; macronucleus moniliform (10-20 macronuclear beads); cortical granules colourless; without symbiotic green algae (Foissner and Wölfl, 1994).


Stentor muelleri, cell body μm long, μm wide, no somatic bristles, moniliform (beaded) macronucleus, x 100, x 400, x 640, from Kanazawa, Ishikawa pref., Japan, 1998 by Y. Tsukii
scale scale 50 μm scale 100 μm scale 150 μm; x 400 : scale 31 μm scale 63 μm scale 94 μm; x 640
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Isolated nuclei, μm long
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