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Description:

Barbulanympha (barb-you-lah-nymph-a) is one of the trichonymphid hypermastigid flagellates found, in this vase, in the guts of the wood-eating cockroach, Cryptocercus. the flagella arise from the anterior portion of the cell, the most anterior region is a small rostrum. Strands, the parabasal apparatus, extend from the flagella down over the cell to the region of the single large nucleus lying about a quarter of the way down the cell. The parabasal apparatus is comprised of cytoskeletal fibres and associated dictyosomes. Phase contrast.