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Euglenophyceae: Euglenales
Euglenida

Lepocinclis sp.
Perty 1849 (Mizuno & Takahashi eds. 2000)
Perty 1852 (John et al. eds. 2002)

Lepocinclis Genus: Body more or less ovo-cylindrical; rigid with spirally striated pellicle; often with a short posterior spinous projection; stigma sometimes present; discoidal chromatophores (chloroplasts) numerous and marginal; paramylum bodies usually large and ring-shaped, laterally disposed; without pyrenoids; fresh water (Kudo, 1966).
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Lepocinclis sp., cell body 55 μm long, 27 μm wide, x 400, x 640, Uruguay, November 1999, photo by Yuuji 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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