Small Free-Living Heterotrophic Flagellates from Marine Intertidal Sediments of the Sydney Region, Australia Author Lee, Won Je text Acta Protozoologica 2019 58 4 167 189 http://dx.doi.org/10.4467/16890027ap.19.016.12018 journal article 10.4467/16890027AP.19.016.12018 1689-0027 12637266 Telonema subtilis Griessmann, 1913 Figs 1h , 2l Description : Cell outline is oval-ovoid. Cells are about 8 µm long, anteriorly narrow and posteriorly broad with a short anterior neck. Two flagella insert below the neck are acronematic and are slightly longer than the cell. The nucleus is centrally located. The cells swim backward with the flagella, which point behind the swimming cells. Food materials are shown in the posterior end of the cell. Not common. Only found once at Woolooware Bay. Remarks : The observation is in accord with Griessmann (1913) . This species has been found at marine sites in France , Mediterranean, Arctic Norway , Antarctica , Australia , Arctic Canada & Greenland , Japan , Belize , Norway and Gulf of Finland (e.g. Vørs 1992a , b, 1993a, b; Patterson et al. 1993 ; Tong et al. 1997 , 1998 ; Vørs et al. 1995 ; Yabuki et al. 2013 ; Lee 2015 ). It has not been reported from freshwater sites. Previously cell lengths were reported to be from 4 to 18 µm. This species is distinguished from Telonema antarctica Thomsen, 1992 by the cell shape. Telonema antarctica is reniforme.