Drawing

Description:

Discocelis saleuta Voers, 1988. Cells are about 3.5 - 6.5 microns long, disc-shaped, flattened, anteriorly concave and posteriorly convex. Two flagella emerge from a depression on the anterior margin of the cell. The recurrent flagellum trails behind the gliding cell and is slightly longer than the cell. The shorter flagellum is less than 1 microns long, is hard to see and is inactive. The nucleus is located anteriorly in the right half of the cell. The cells glide smoothly in closely contact with the substrate.