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Description:
Rhynchomonas, distinctive kinetoplastid flagellate, with swollen or bulbous ingestion apparatus that is supported by the anterior flagellum and has a waggling movement. Second flagellum trails behind the cell and is acronematic - the tip is thinner than the rest of the flagellum. Phase contrast micrograph.
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- Life (creatures)
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- Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
- Excavates (excavates)
- Discoba (Jakobids)
- Euglenozoa
- Kinetoplastea
- Metakinetoplastina
- Neobodonida
- Rhynchomonadidae
- Rhynchomonas
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- A. Feng, Wie-Song and D. J. Patterson
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