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Euglenophyceae: Euglenales
Mastigophora: Euglenida

Euglena

Euglena Genus: Spindle, cylindrical or band-form; pellicle usually marked by longitudinal or spiral striae; 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).
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Euglena pisciformis Klebs 1883 ?, cell body 20 μm long, 8 μm wide, one ? or two chloroplasts long and parietal, flagellum longer than cell body, x 400, x 640, Shinobazu-ike (pond), Ueno, Taito-ku, Tokyo, Japan, March 2001 by Y. Tsukii
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Euglena Euglena Euglena


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