Species: 170-400 μm long,
15-40 μm wide; cylindrical and flattened; posterior end rounded;
plastic, often twisted; numerous small discoid chloroplasts; stigma conspicuous;
flagellum about one-half the body length or less ; two paramylon (paramylum) bodies elongate,
up to over 100 μm long (Kudo, 1966).
One of the larger species; chloroplasts small, discoid, numerous;
paramylon (paramylum) as one or two long rods,
30-100 μm long (How to know the protozoa, 1979).
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