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Percolomonas (perk-o-low-moan-ass) is an excavate flagellate - in that it has a ventral groove or gutter that is used in feeding, and is usually classified with the heterolobosea. Two to four flagella insert at the head of the groove, one (the recurrent flagellum) is much longer than the others. Often found in slightly smelly (i.e. anoxic) habitats. Phase contrast.
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Percolomonas (perk-o-low-moan-ass) is an excavate flagellate - in that it has a ventral groove or gutter that is used in feeding, and is usually classified with the heterolobosea. Two to four flagella insert at the head of the groove, one (the recurrent flagellum) is much longer than the others. Often found in slightly smelly (i.e. anoxic) habitats. Phase contrast.
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Percolomonas (perk-o-low-moan-ass) is an excavate flagellate - in that it has a ventral groove or gutter that is used in feeding, and is usually classified with the heterolobosea. Two to four flagella insert at the head of the groove, one (the recurrent flagellum) is much longer than the others. Often found in slightly smelly (i.e. anoxic) habitats. Differential interference contrast.
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Percolomonas (perk-o-low-moan-ass) is an excavate flagellate - in that it has a ventral groove or gutter that is used in feeding, and is usually classified with the heterolobosea. Four flagella insert at the head of the groove. They insert in parallel. Often found in slightly smelly (i.e. anoxic) habitats. Phase contrast.
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Percolomonas cosmopolitus (Ruinen, 1938) Larsen and Patterson, 1990. Obovate cell, 6-10microns long, with a ventral groove arising subapically and extending half the length of the cell. Four flagella insert subapically: one approximately twice the length of the cell, extending behind the cell, used for adhesion to substratum: three shorter flagella lie within the groove and are used to creat a current of water from which suspended particles are extracted. Nucleus anterior, with globular nucleolus.
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Phase contrast image of a cell showing the one long flagelum and thee short ones, cells from ATCC strain 50343.
ATCC data on this organism.
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Phase contrast image of a cell from ATCC strain 50343 showing four parallel flagella, three short and one long.
ATCC data on this organism.