Description: English: Sphaerophrya magna, Maupas (Suctoria). It has seized with its tentacles, and is in the act of sucking out the juices of six examples of the Ciliate Colpoda parvifrons C. & L. — References.: W. Saville Kent:
Manual of the Infusoria Sphaerophrya Claparede & Lachmann, 1859, National Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES), Japan
Suctoria Claparède & Lachmann, 1858 (subclass),
World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS)
Sphaerophrya Claparède & Lachmann, 1860,
Global Biodiversity Information Facilit (GBIF)
Genus Sphaerophrya Claparède & Lachmann, 1859, The Taxonomicon Français : Sphaerophrya magna, Maupas (cilié du groupe des
Suctoria). Les ayant saisi avec ses tentacules, il est en train d'aspirer les sucs de six exemplaires de la Ciliée Colpoda parvifrons (famille des
Colpodidae). Date: 1911. Source: Fig. 12 at
File:EB1911 Infusoria - Suctoria.jpg. Original Source: "Infusoria", Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.), v. 14, 1911, p. 562, fig. viii. Author: Unknown artistUnknown artist - copped extract.