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Dinomonas tuberculatus Kent, 1880. Body irregularly ovate, somewhat variable in form, but not metabolic, most usually narrowing posteriorly, the ventral border flattened, the dorsal one convex, endoplasm very clear and transparent, with irregular inclusions, many of these located on or close to the surface, and imparting to it a tuberculate aspect, flagella subequal, the anterior slightly the longer, exceeding the body in length, nucleus spherical, subcentral, contractile vacuole posteriorly situated. Length of body 10.2 microns