Description of Ochromonas aspera
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Inglês
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fornecido por BioPedia
Cells are 8-10 microns in diameter. The cells are sub-circular in front view, sometimes truncate above, and in side view somewhat compressed and ovate. There is a yellow-green chloroplast near the anterior end, a single flagellum and a pair of minute contractile vacuole at one side near the front margin; no stigma. The organism can project outwards a large wave of membrane or clear homogeneous cytoplasm, and seize any particle of food in its vicinity.
