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Oligohymenophorea (formerly Nassophorea): Peniculida: Parameciidae

 Paramecium duboscqui
Chatton and Brachon, 1933

Paramecium duboscqui Genus: Cigar- or foot-shaped; a single macronucleus and 1 to several vesicular or compact microuclei (Kudo, 1966).
Species:

Paramecium duboscqui, cell body 115 μm long, 52 μm wide, x 400, Japan, 199? by Y. Tsukii
scale 50 μm scale 100 μm scale 150 μm; x 400
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Paramecium duboscqui, a stock culture, cell body 125 μm long, 50 μm wide, contractile vacuole without radial canals, developed by fusion of small vacuoles, x 400, x 640, Japan, 2001 by Y. Tsukii
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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Cell body slightly flattened with coverglass, x 400
scale 50 μm scale 100 μm scale 150 μm; x 400
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Cell body strongly flattened with coverglass, x 640
scale 31 μm scale 63 μm scale 94 μm; x 640
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P. duboscqui stained with azure C; by Y. Tsukii
Paramecium duboscqui

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