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Description:

Kathablepharis (kath-a-bleff-are-is) is a kethablepharid flagellate. Recently, the genus Leucocryptos has been regarded as referring also to the same organisms, and so is now an obsolete name. With two long thickened flagella inserting subapically, and with a line of refractile extrusomes running along the ventral face of the body. Usually eat protists and detritus. Phase contrast.