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Description:

Bodo uncinatus (Kent, 1880) Klebs. Bodo cells that are 6.4-8.5 microns long, smooth, ovate, rounded posterioly, narrower and slightly curved towards the ventral aspect anteriorly, anterior vibratile flagellum short, scarcely exceeding one-half of the cell length, recurved or hooked as its end, posterior flagellum more than twice the cell length, contractile vacuole conspicuous, situated near the narrower anterior end, nucleus at the opposite end.