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Description:

Bodo rostratus (Kent, 1880) Klebs Bodo cells that are about 8.5 microns long. Cell elongate-ovate, somewhat inflated posterioly, the anterior end pointed and usually slightly recurved towards the ventral aspect, flagella equally slender, the anterior vibratile flagellum from one and a half to twice the length of the body, the posterior one longer than the proceeding, contracting, when the cell is attached, in a loose spiral coil, contractile vacuole mostly conspicuous, situated close to the anterior end, nucleus located near the opposite or posterior end.