Have a
characteristic moon shape with tapered ends
Selene
= Greek for "moon" monas = unit
Flagella protrude from the concave side
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They have a characteristic moon shape with tapered ends.
Selene is Greek for "moon“, monas
means unit.
So Selenomonasmeans “moon unit”. They have flagella coming from the
inside of
the curve and look like the diagram shown here.