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Euglenophyceae: Euglenales
Mastigophora: Euglenida

Phacus pusillus
Lemmermann 1910

Euglena Genus: Spindle, cylindrical or band-form; pellicle usually marked by longitudinal or spiral stirae; 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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Phacus pusillus Lemmermann var. pusillus ??, cell body 16 μm long 8 μm wide, x 640, Green-Park, Nishi-Urawa, Saitama Pref., Japan, June 2001 by Y. Tsukii
scale 31 μm scale 63 μm scale 94 μm; x 640
Phacus pusillus Phacus pusillus


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