Bodo

Zoomastigophora: Kinetoplastida: Bodonidae

Bodo
Ehrenberg






Family: With two flagella; one directed anteriorly and the other posteriorly and trailing (recurrent flagellum); flagella orininate in anterior end; one to several contractile vacuoles (Kudo, 1966).
Genus: Small, ovoid, but plastic; cytostome anterior; encystment common (Kudo, 1966). Cytostome at the tip of a short rostrum which is ventral or tateral to the flagellar pocket (Illustrated Guide, 1985).


Bodo, x 400, x 640, Uruguay Nov. 1999, photo by Yuuji Tsukii
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Bodo, x 400, x 640, Uruguay Nov. 1999, photo by Yuuji Tsukii


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