Heterotrichea:
Heterotrichida: Heterotrichina: Stentoridae
Stentor coeruleus
Ehrenberg, 1830
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).
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Stentor coeruleus,
cell body μm long, μm wide,
x 640, Kasai Seaside Park, Edogawa-ku, Tokyo, Japan, December 2001 by Y. Tsukii
50 μm
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150 μm; x 400 :
31 μm
63 μm
94 μm; x 640
Stentor coeruleus,
cell body μm long, μm wide,
x 640, Kasai Seaside Park, Edogawa-ku, Tokyo, Japan, December 2001 by Y. Tsukii
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