Description of Cercomonas
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Gliding, with flexible body usually able to produce pseudopodia more often from posterior end, anterior flagellum varies in length from one species to another, it beats slowly and is flexible; posterior flagellum trails adhering in part to the ventral surface, usually lying in a groove. Some of the species (e.g., C. agilis ) may actively swim. Type species, C. longicauda Dujardin 1841.
