In July 2024 I found a few specimens of Cephalodella 1 in the pond of the convent Hegne. At first I thought this species was Cephalodella gibboides (Wulfert, 1950, s. fig. 6), because in the trophi of Cephalodella 1 I could observe Y-shaped connected pleural rods (s. figs. 4 and 5 a-b). This feature is possessed only by Cephalodella wrighti (Wulfert, 1960) and Cephalodella gibboides. Since Cephalodella wrighti has only very short toes, my assumption was that my specimens are Cephalodella gibboides. However, Cephalodella 1 shows some essential differences from Cephalodella gibboides.

The specimens of Cephalodella 1 were between 120–140 µm long and thus about 30% smaller than Cephalodella gibboides (184–206 µm). In addition, my specimens lacked the double frontal eye. The gastric glands of Cephalodella gibboides are filled with fat globules, which was also not the case in my specimens.

Since there is therefore no alternative among the previously known species with Y-shaped pleural rods, Cephalodella 1 could be a species not yet described.