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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 sp. or Dimastigella ?, cell body ovoid or fusiform, 16 μm long, 6.6 μm wide, with two flagella, one anterior and another posterior, x 640, Handa Numa (Pond), Otawara city, Tochigi Pref., Japan, 2001 by Y. Tsukii
scale 31 μm scale 63 μm scale 94 μm; x 640


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