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Description:
The ciliate Holophrya, with a polar mouth which is surrounded by stiff rods (nemadesmata) that can be used to manipulate food into the body. Normally eats algae and detritus. Differential interference contrast.
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- Life (creatures)
- Cellular (cellular organisms)
- Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
- SAR (Stramenopiles, Alveolates, Rhizaria)
- Alveolata (alveolates)
- Ciliophora (ciliates)
- Intramacronucleata
- Prostomatea
- Prorodontida
- Holophryidae
- Holophrya
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- David Patterson and Aimlee Laderman
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