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Euglenophyceae: Euglenales
Mastigophora: Euglenida

Euglena anabaena
Mainx 1926 (John et al. ed. 2002)

Euglena anabaena Species (var. minima Mainx, 1927): Cell body spidle in shape, 29-42 μm long, 11-17 μm wide, euglenoid movement rare, 3-6 (rarely 7) chloroplasts saucer-shaped or rectangular with wavy margin, a pyrenoid covered with paramylon sheath located at the center, a locomotive flagellum nearly the same length as the cell body, nucleus spherical, 8 μm in diam., stigma (eye spot) 3 μm (An Illustrated Guide to Freshwater Zooplankton in Japan, 2000).


Euglena anabaena or E. caudata ?, cell body 62 μm long, 17 μm wide, x 640, rice field, Izumi 741, Namegawa town, Saitama Pref., Japan, August 16, 2004 by Y. Tsukii
scale 31 μm scale 63 μm scale 94 μm; x 640
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