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Euglenophyceae: Euglenales
Mastigophora: Euglenida: Euglenina

Euglena spirogyra-2
Ehrenberg 1838 (or 1830?)

Euglena spirogyra Species: 80-125 μm long, 10-35 μm wide; cylindrical; anterior end a little narrowed and rounded; posterior end drawn out; spiral striae, made up of small knobs; many discoid chloroplasts; two ovoidal paramylon (paramylum) bodies; flagellum about 1/4 the body length; sluggish (Kudo, 1966). 80-180 μm long. Several varieties: var. suprema 140-180 μm, var. marchica, 85-165 micron, var. abruptacuminata, 130-145 μm (How to know the protozoa, 1979). 45-250 μm long, 5-35 μm wide (Illustrated guide, 1985). Cell body 70-96 μm long, 10-14 μm wide, two large paramylon bodies ring-shaped (An Illustrated Guide to Freshwater Zooplankton in Japan, 2000).


Euglena spirogyra Ehrenberg, cell body 150 μm long, μm wide, anterior end conical, pellicle consisting of two different types of knobs, large (1.5 μm in diam.) and small (1 μm in diam.), 6 striae within 10 μm, stigma 6 μm in diam., with two large oval-ring shaped paramylons, x 400, x 640, Green-Park, Nishi-Urawa, Saitama Pref., Japan, June 2001 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
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