Description of Cryptomonas
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Cryptomonad flagellates, cells often forming mucilaginous pallmelloid colonies. Motile cells posess two flagella, with typical tubular flagellar hairs, that originate from the right side of the vestibulum. Complex type of vestibular/furrow/gullet with furrow consisting of furrow ridges, folds and a persistent opening called the stroma located near the posterior one third of the furrow. Periplast consisting of an inner component of round to oval-shaped plates and a surface component of a thin layer of fibrils. The periplastidial compartment has two chloroplasts with two pyrenoids, not transversed by thylakoids, and two nucleomorphs. Chloroplasts posess CR-phycoerythrin 566. Freshwater only
