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Epistylis sp.

Species name: Epistylis sp.

Bureau Swerage, Tokyo Metropolitan Government

The size of Epistylis is 5-90 μm in length. It might look like Vorticella, but Epistylis does not have myonemes. Epistylis sometimes stay in clusters. No myonemes result in immobility of stalk and whole body, but its oral can contract individually.

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(2016.07.19)

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