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Image of Kinetoplastea

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Cells metabolic, about 27.5 microns, spindle-shaped or oval, slightly compressed on the sides, with sharp-pointed posterior end, when anterior end is terminated by a long snout. The anterior flagellum is shorter than the trailing flagellum, it is equal to the body length and it emanates from the end of the snout. The trailing flagellum emanates just below the snout and is twice the body length. The contractile vacuole not described. Nuclues in the center. ATCC 50326.

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