Stentor
Group: Stentor · Stentor (trumpet ciliates)
What you see
Recorded on 16 September 2014. This loop is the whole 0:22 recording.
Points to check against your own sample:
- Stentor coeruleus is blue-green from a pigment; S. polymorphus is green from algae living inside it.
- Trumpet or horn shape when attached; a wide ring of membranelles around the top sweeps food in.
Full description and look-alikes: Stentor.
Credit line
Video: Jon Houseman, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons