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Heterotrichea: Heterotrichida: Stentoridae

Stentor muelleri
Ehrenberg 1831

Stentor 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 sp., cell body 200 μm long, 55 μm wide, L/W=3.6, moniliform nuclei 11 μm in diam., x 200, x 400, x 640, Naka-gawa Kahan koen (riverside park at Naka river), Kuroiso city, Tochigi Pref., Japan, January 3, 2005 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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