Heterotrichea:
Heterotrichida: Stentoridae
Stentor pyriformis
Johnson 1893
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 pyriformis Johnson 1893, with endosymbiotic algae,
cell body 280 μm long, 190 μm wide, L/W=,
x 200, x 400, x 640, No.1, Tashirodaira marsh, Hakkoda mountain, Aomori city, Aomori Pref., Japan, September 13, 2006 by Y. Tsukii
200 μm
400 μm
600 μm; x 100
Images of collecting locality:
No.1, Tashirodaira marsh, Hakkoda mountain, Aomori city, Aomori Pref., Japan, September 13, 2006 by Y. Tsukii
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