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Euglenophyceae: Euglenales
Mastigophora: Euglenida

Phacus acuminatus
Stokes var. iowensis Allegre & Jahn

Phacus acuminatus Species: Cell body flat, anterior narrowed, posterior broadly rounded, with short blunt cauda, 30-40 μm long, 20-30 μm wide, cauda usually straight, but rarely slightly curved, dorsal furrow short and shallow, lateral margins broadly rounded or nearly straight, periplasts longitudinally striated, usually a single large paramylon body but sometimes accompanied with a second smaller one (Photomicrograph of the freshwater algae, 3: 71, 1985). Cell body 23-40 μm long, 20-30 μm wide, dorsal view nearly spherical; cauda short V-shaped and slightly curved or straight, striae also straight; a locomotive flagellum nearly the same as the cell body in length; paramylon bodies disc-shaped with a hole at the center, 1-2 in number; (An Illustrated Guide to Freshwater Zooplankton in Japan, 2000).


Phacus acuminatus Stokes var. iowensis Allegre & Jahn, cell body μm long, μm wide, x 640, near railway station, Shimotsuma city, Ibaraki Pref., Japan, October 2003 by Y. Tsukii
scale 31 μm scale 63 μm scale 94 μm; x 640
Phacus acuminatus

Phacus acuminatus Stokes var. acuminatus: Cell body flat, anterior narrowed, posterior broadly rounded, with short blunt cauda, 30-40 μm long, 20-30 μm wide, cauda usually straight, but rarely slightly curved, dorsal furrow short and shallow, lateral margins broadly rounded or nearly straight, periplasts longitudinally striated, usually a single large paramylon body but sometimes accompanied with a second smaller one (Photomicrograph of the freshwater algae, 3: 71, 1985).


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