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Description:
Rhynchomonas - the nosey flagellate. This organism eats bacteria that stick to particles of detritus. The mouth is in the 'nose' and it is pushed over bacteria and somehow they are detached and pulled into the flagellate for digestion.
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- Life (creatures)
- Cellular (cellular organisms)
- Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
- Excavates (excavates)
- Discoba (Jakobids)
- Euglenozoa
- Kinetoplastea
- Metakinetoplastina
- Neobodonida
- Rhynchomonadidae
- Rhynchomonas
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- David J Patterson
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