portrait with mouth
Description:
Ploeotia (plee-owe-sha) a gliding heterotrophic euglenid. One flagellum projects anteriorly and beats with an undulating motion, the posterior flagellum is thickened and trails. The cells are rigid, usually flattened and have a well-developed ingestion apparatus seen here projecting from the front of the cell. Phase contrast.
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- Life (biota)
- Cellular
- Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
- Excavates (excavates)
- Discoba (Jakobids)
- Euglenozoa (euglenozoans)
- Euglenida (euglenoides)
- Ploeotiidae
- Ploeotia
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