Description
Multinucleate organism {25-220 ~m) (Fig. 12A). Attached or mature forms are club-shaped cells with 1 rostellum, several nuclei (2-114), and axostyles scattered throughout the cell body and without flagella . Immature forms occurring from plasmotomy of large forms contain several karyomastigonts, with poorly developed flagella, arranged in one or several coronas (Figs. 12B,C). They phagocytize wood. Two described species, one occurring in Ca/caritermes brevicol/is of Panama and one in Neotermes howa from Mauritius island (Cross 1946). No ultrastructural study. A mauritiana {after Cross , 1946) . A. Attached form . B,C. Dividing forms undergoing plasmotomy . Bar= 30 IJm . B Cryptotermes dud/eyi. A. Attached form (after Kofoid and Swezy, 1926). B. Detached form without rostellum (after Kirby , 1929) . Bar=20 IJm . OXYMONADIDA inte
Type species
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Multinucleate organism {25-220 ~m) (Fig. 12A).
Attached or mature forms are club-shaped cells
with 1 rostellum, several nuclei (2-114), and
axostyles scattered throughout the cell body and
without flagella . Immature forms occurring from
plasmotomy of large forms contain several
karyomastigonts, with poorly developed flagella,
arranged in one or several coronas (Figs. 12B,C).
They phagocytize wood. Two described species, one
occurring in Ca/caritermes brevicol/is of Panama
and one in Neotermes howa from Mauritius island
(Cross 1946). No ultrastructural study.
A
mauritiana {after Cross , 1946) . A. Attached form .
B,C. Dividing forms undergoing plasmotomy . Bar= 30
IJm .
B
Cryptotermes dud/eyi. A. Attached form (after Kofoid
and Swezy, 1926). B. Detached form without rostellum
(after Kirby , 1929) . Bar=20 IJm .
OXYMONADIDA
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