Description of Menoidium acutissimum
(
anglais
)
fourni par BioPedia
Cells are 200 microns long and 8.5 microns wide. The body is straight and very long in proportion to the breadth. No distinct rostrum in front, where it is merely narrow and truncate, but the formation and flagellum are as in Menoidium. The under side is nearly flat, the upper very slightly arched, the sides diverging slightly from the snout to the anterior quarter, from there gradually converging to the extremely narrow and sharp-pointed hinder end. Cytoplasm hyaline, homogeneous, transparent, allowing a clear view of the bag-shaped pharynx with which are connected a minute c.v. and red stigma. A single series of long thin paramylum rods along the upper side, much more regular than is usual in this genus.
