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OPALINA (so named by J. E. Purkinje and G. Valentin)  , a genus of See also:Protozoa, without mouth or contractile vacuole, covered with nearly equal flagelliform See also:cilia, and possessing numerous nuclei, all similar . It has been referred to Aspirotricha by Biitschli, but by M . Hartog (See also:Cambridge Natural See also:History, vol. ii., 1906) has been transferred to the Flagellates (q.v.) . All the See also:species are parasitic in See also:cold-blooded Vertebrates . See Bezzenberger in Archiv. f . Protistenkunde (1903), iii . 138 .

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