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Description:

Salpingoeca (sal-ping-go-eek-a) amphoridium James-Clark, 1867. Cell is about 6 - 7 microns and is located in a lorica about 10 microns long. The lorica has a neck, which is everted at the anterior end. The cell may be retracted in the lorica. One flagellum emerges at the anterior end of the cell and is about the length of the cell. The lorica may attach to the substrate by a short pedicel or the posterior end of the lorica. Rarely observed.