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Description:

Notosolenus (note-owe-so-lean-us) ostium Larsen and Patterson, 1990. Cells are 18 - 65 microns long and have a small ingestion organelle, which is obliquely oriented and visible on the ventral face of the cell. The cells have a longitudinal dorsal groove and are slightly concave on the ventral face. The cells are with dorsally a median longitudinal groove, and ventrally a wide groove and four fine stripes. Two flagella emerge from the flagellar canal and are in unequal length. The anterior flagellum is about 1 - 1.5 times the length of the cell and the posterior flagellum is about 0.2 to 0.6 times the length of the cell. The organism contained eukaryotic algal food up to 8 microns long. The reservoir is anteriorly situated in the right side of the cell and the nucleus in the left side. Common in late cultures.