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Euglenophyceae: Euglenales
Mastigophora: Euglenida

Euglena sp.

Euglena archaeoplastidiata 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).
Species:


Euglena sp. (archaeoplastidiata ?), cell body 34 μm long, μm wide, x 400, x 640, Japan, December 1998 by Y. Tsukii
scale 50 μm scale 100 μm scale 150 μm; x 400 : scale 31 μm scale 63 μm scale 94 μm; x 640
Euglena Euglena Euglena


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