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Descrição:

Bodo saltans (beau-dough), a genus of kinetoplastid flagellates. Traditionally regarded as being very widespread and numerous, but this was at a time when most small free-living flagellates were assigned to the genus Bodo. Bodonids have two flagella inserting into a small pocket, the presence of which is suggested by the dent in the right anterior margin of the cell. This is Bodo saltans, which is unlike most species in the genus because cells attach to the substrate by the tip of the recurrent flagellum, as can be seen in this group of cells. These cells also jerk or kick, and this behaviour is very distinctive. Phase contrast.