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Cell gliding with two filopodia

Ventricleftida Cavalier-Smith 2011

Strongly flattened oval cell with rigid theca without scales; two unequal cilia emerging subapically, often from apical notch – posterior cilium used for gliding on surfaces; ventral cleft from which branched filose pseudopods emerge for feeding separate from and posterior to ciliary groove unlike Thaumatomonadida and Auranticordis; extrusomes.

Ventrifissura, Verrucomonas.

Photomicrographs of the same cell showing two cilia (arrowed) originating from the fundal region. One pseudopodium (ps) is visible. The granulated mass in the fundus is the nucleus.

Ferry Siemensma
Created March 3, 2019
Last updated March 20, 2019

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