| Stentor Coeruleus | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukarya |
| Kingdom: | Chromalveolata |
| Superphylum: | Alveolata |
| Phylum: | Ciliophora |
| Class: | Heterotrichea |
| Order: | Heterotrichida |
| Family: | Stentoridae |
| Genus: | Stentor |
| Species: | S. Coeruleus |
| Binomial name | |
| 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.
Stentor Coeruleus is known to habituate to its environment. [3]
Stentor Coeruleus may reproduce by a form of sexual reproduction called conjugation.