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Heterotrichea: Heterotrichida: Heterotrichina: Stentoridae

Stentor coeruleus
Ehrenberg, 1830

Stentor coeruleus Species: Body trumpet-shaped; macronucleus moniliform; 1-2 mm when extended; contractile vacuole anterior; pellicle dark, bluish-green color (How to know the protozoa, 1979).
Cell body slenderly trumpet shaped, 1000-2000 μm long when fully extended; macronucleus moniliform; cortical granules blue-green; without symbiotic algae (Foissner and Wölfl, 1994).


Stentor coeruleus, x 400, x 640, Niigata Pref., Japan, May 2001, collected by N. Kinoshita, photo 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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