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Cercomonadida
Cercomonas sp.
Dujardin (= Cercobodo Krassilotschick)
Genus: Biflagellate, both arising from anterior end; one directed anteriorly and the other runs backward
over body surface as a trailing (recurrent) flagellum; body plastic (Kudo, 1966).
Small (10-15 μm);
body is generally pyriform to cylindrical
except for an ameboid variable posterior (Illustrated Guide, 1985).
Species:
Cercomonas crassicauda ?,
tape No. 0148, time code 0939,
cell body 20 μm long, 12 μm wide,
x 640, Kurome river, Asaka city, Saitama Pref., Japan, March 1999, by Y. Tsukii
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