Species: 50-175 μm long,
8-18 μm wide;
body long spindle or cylindre, with a sharply pointed posterior end;
numerous discoid chloroplasts; several paramylon (paramylum) bodies; nucleus central; stigma distinct;
flagellum short, about one-fourth the body length (Kudo, 1966).
Similar species -->> Cyclidiopsis; E. limnophila; Euglena acus Ehrenberg 1830,
cell body 220 μm long, 11 μm wide,
chloroplasts disc-shaped, about 3.5 μm in diam.,
large paramylon bodies rod-shaped, 22-24 μm long, with many small ones,
x 400, x 640, Uruguay, November 1999, photo by Yuuji Tsukii
50 μm
100 μm
150 μm; x 400 :
31 μm
63 μm
94 μm; x 640