Euglena

Euglenophyceae: Euglenales
Mastigophora: Euglenida: Euglenina

Euglena hemichromata
Ehrenberg






Family:
Genus: Spindle, cylindrical or band-form; pellicle usually marked by longitudinal or spiral stirae; some with a thin pellicle highly plastic; stigma usually anterior; chloroplasts discoid, band-form, or fusiform; two paramylum bodies located on either side of nucleus, rod-like to ovoid in shape or numerous and scattered throughout; contractile vacuole near reservoir; cell division longitudinal (Kudo, 1966).


Euglena hemichromata, x 400, x 640, Uruguay Nov. 1999, photo by Yuuji Tsukii
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Euglena hemichromata ??, x 400, x 640, Uruguay Nov. 1999, photo by Yuuji Tsukii


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