Description of Urceolus
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Heteronematine euglenids, gliding flagellates with squirming movements and a flared anterior 'collar', one emergent flagellum; with an ingestion device opening into the canal, from freshwater and marine habitats, found regularly in marine intertidal sediments, type species: U. alenizini Mereschkowsky, 1877.
Classification
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This authority places the genus under the family Heteronematidae
Hayward, P.J. & J.S. Ryland (Eds.). (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK. 627 pp.
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