Description
Colorless cells with a rostrate anterior, not phagocytic; furrow/gullet complex consisting of a vestibulum, a short furrow, and long tubular gullet (Fig. 14) . A vestibular ligule covers the area of contractile vacuole discharge. Both flagella with a unilateral row of tubular hairs. The periplast has an inner single sheet with numerous ejectisome pores and a surface periplast component consisting primarily of fibrils. The periplastidal compartment contains leucoplasts lacking thylakoids, numerous large starch grains , and several nucleomorphs located in the periplastidal space near the nucleus. Freshwater (Anderson, 1962; Grim and Staehelin, 1 984; .. . Storeatula Heywood, 1988 ; Kugrens and Lee, 1987, 1991 ; Kugrens et al., 1986; Roberts et al. , 1 981 ; Schuster, 1970; Sespenwol, 1973). 11 18 CRYPTOMONAD
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Colorless cells with a rostrate anterior, not phagocytic; furrow/gullet complex consisting of a vestibulum, a short furrow, and long tubular gullet (Fig. 14) . A vestibular ligule covers the area of contractile vacuole discharge. Both flagella with a unilateral row of tubular hairs. The periplast has an inner single sheet with numerous ejectisome pores and a surface periplast component consisting primarily of fibrils. The periplastidal compartment contains leucoplasts lacking thylakoids, numerous large starch grains , and several nucleomorphs located in the periplastidal space near the nucleus. Freshwater (Anderson, 1962; Grim and Staehelin, 1 984; .. . Storeatula Heywood, 1988 ; Kugrens and Lee, 1987, 1991 ; Kugrens et al., 1986; Roberts et al. , 1 981 ; Schuster, 1970; Sespenwol, 1973). 11 18 CRYPTOMONAD