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Description:

Lepocinclis (leap-o-sink-liss) an autotrophic euglenid. Most members of this genus are fat elliptical cells and have hyaline ridges of material running spirally over the surface of the cell. Usually with many disc-shaped plastids, and (towards the top of the cell) a large hyaline deposit of paramylon storage material shaped in the form of a flattened quoit. With one flagellum emerging from the anterior pole. Differential interference contrast.