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
50 μm
100 μm
150 μm; x 400 :
31 μm
63 μm
94 μm; x 640
Isolated nuclei, μm long