Opalina
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Opalina (so named by J. E. Purkinje and G. Valentin), is a genus of Protozoa found in the guts of frogs and toads. It is without a mouth or contractile vacuole, covered with nearly equal flagelliform cilia, and possessing numerous nuclei, all similar. All the species are parasitic in cold-blooded vertebrates.
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