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Euglenophyceae: Euglenales
Mastigophora: Euglenida

Euglena deses
Ehrenberg 1833

Euglena deses Species: 85-170 μm long, 10-20 μm wide; highly plastic; stigma distinct; chloroplasts discoid with pyrenoid; several small rod-shaped paramylon (paramylum) bodies (Kudo, 1966). Body flattened, twisted, with longitudinal chloroplasts; flagellum less than 1/4 body length (How to know the protozoa, 1979).
Cell body cylindrical, 90-165 μm long, 9-18μm wide, posterior slightly pointed; chloroplast large disc-shaped, parietal, 30-50 in number, a pyrenoid without paramylon sheath located at the center; a flagellum 1/3 to 1/2 of the body length; nucleus ellipsoidal 14-20 x 8-12 μm; stigma 5-7 μm; paramylon bodies ellipsoidal or rod-shaped (An Illustrated Guide to Freshwater Zooplankton in Japan, 2000).
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Euglena deses Ehrenberg, cell body 130 μm long, 10 μm wide, x 640, Kijioka Castle Ruin (Shiroyama park), Kodama, Honjo city (formerly Kodama town), Saitama Pref., Japan, April 15, 2006 by Y. Tsukii
scale 31 μm scale 63 μm scale 94 μm; x 640
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Images of collecting locality: Kijioka Castle Ruin (Shiroyama park), Kodama, Honjo city (formerly Kodama town), Saitama Pref., Japan, April 15, 2006 by Y. Tsukii


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