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Bodo. A common kinetoplastid flagellate, with 2 flagella, the longer one is usually recurrent and is acronematic (the tip is thinner than the rest of the flagellum), the anterior flagellum usually projects forward. Bodo saltans is usually attached to the substrate by the recurrent flagellum, this cell was a gliding cell encountered in a culture of Bodo saltans provided by Gu Xi-wen oif teh Institute of Hydrobiology in Wuhan. Phase contrast.