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Tracheloraphis (track-ell-owe-ray-fiss) is a karyorelict ciliate. It is one of several genera in which most species have adopted a long thin contractile body form and the identification of this cell is tentative. Mostly found in marine sediments, living within the spaces between sand grains. The anterior end is slightly expanded and thought by most but not all to the site of the mouth. Fairly common. Phase contrast This picture was taken by David Patterson and Michele Burford of material from a commercial prawn farm in Queensland, Australia in 2000. Image copyright: D. J. Patterson and Michele Burford, image used under license to MBL (micro*scope).

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Tracheloraphis

From the collection Prawn Farm, Queensland, Australia

Description of Tracheloraphis: Protostomatid ciliates, naked, ventral stripe, 1/8 to 1/2 of the cortical perimeter; ciliated oral kinetosomes organized as several brosse kineties; single circumoral kinety interrupted by brosse cleft

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Tracheloraphis in other collections

Tracheloraphis, from ATOL protistology workshop 2005	Tracheloraphis, from Protsville	Tracheloraphis, from Marine microbes from Idaho	Tracheloraphis, from Marine microbes from Idaho	Tracheloraphis, from Marine microbes from Idaho
Tracheloraphis, from Marine microbes from Idaho	Tracheloraphis, from Marine microbes from Idaho	Tracheloraphis, from Little Sippewissett salt marsh, Massachusetts, USA	Tracheloraphis, from Little Sippewissett salt marsh, Massachusetts, USA

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