Heterotrichea:
Heterotrichida: Stentoridae
Stentor fuliginosus
Forbes 1891
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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Stentor fuliginosus Forbes 1891, algal endosymbionts present,
cell body μm long, μm wide, L/W=,
x 640, No.1, Kannon-numa Forest Park (pond), Shimogo town, Fukushima Pref., Japan, November 15, 2008, by Y. Tsukii
200 μm
400 μm
600 μm; x 100
Images of collecting locality:
No.1, Kannon-numa Forest Park (pond), Shimogo town, Fukushima Pref., Japan, November 15, 2008, by Y. Tsukii
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