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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. The parabasal apparatus is comprised of cytoskeletal fibres and associated dictyosomes. Differential interference contrast.