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Description:

Microcometes, a flagellate living in a lorica that adheres to the substrate. The lorica has a number of ports through which fine pseudopodia that bear granules extend. The pseudopodia usually adhere to the substrate. Flagella are inactive and often hard to see. The lorica seems to be transparent when first formed, with age it becomes brown. From Lake Donghu, China. Differential interference contrast micrograph.