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Kinetoplastida: Bodonidae

Bodo sp.
Ehrenberg

Bodo 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).
Species:


Bodo sp. (B. caudatus ?), cell body μm long, μm wide, posterior tapered, x 400, x 640, Uruguay, November 1999, photo by Yuuji Tsukii
scale 50 μm scale 100 μm scale 150 μm; x 400 : scale 31 μm scale 63 μm scale 94 μm; x 640
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Cells flattened under a cover glass
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