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Description:

Bodopsis platyformis Lackey, 1940. Cells are 15-20 microns long and 12-15 microns wide. Generally round to oval in outline, but when coming to rest, they can be slightly metabolic. A slight indentation in front serves as a mouth region, and at times a few short pseudopodia are extended from here, this is the point of emergence of the flagella. The anterior one is about body length, the trailing flagellum is about two and one half times as long. The nucleus is median, large, conspicuous, with a wide clear zone just inside its membrane. Against the membrane is an accumulation of granules and spherical bodies. Pellicle smooth. Colorless. No feeding or reproduction seen.