Stentor coeruleus
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| Species: | S. coeruleus
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| Stentor coeruleus Ehrenberg, 1830[1]
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Stentor coeruleus is a protist of the Stentor genus. It belongs to the Stentoridae family which is characterized by being a very large ciliate that measures 0.5 to 2 millimetres when fully extended.
Stentor coeruleus specifically appears as a very large trumpet. It contains a macronucleus that looks like a string of beads that are contained within a ciliate that is blue to blue-green in color. Being that it has many myonemes, it has the ability to contract into a ball. It has the ability to swim while both fully extended or contracted.[2]
Eating is accomplished using cilia that carry food into the ciliate's gullet.
Reproduction
Stentor coeruleus are capable of sexual reproduction, or conjugation, but primarily reproduce asexually by binary fission.[3]
References
- ^ http://protist.i.hosei.ac.jp/pdb/images/Ciliophora/Stentor/coeruleus/index.html
- ^ Rotkiewicz, Piotr (ugly). "Stentor - Droplet Photo Gallery". Droplet - Microscopy of the Protozoa.
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