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Heterotrichea: Heterotrichida: Stentoridae

 Stentor pyriformis
Johnson 1893

Stentor 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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Other endosymbioses

Stentor pyriformis Johnson 1893, with endosymbiotic algae, x 100, x 200, Vermont-Maine U.S.A., August 7-13, 1999, by Y. Tsukii
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