Euglenophyceae:
Euglenales
Mastigophora: Euglenida
Euglena acus
Ehrenberg, 1830
Species: 50-175 μm long,
8-18 μm wide;
body long spindle or cylindre, with a sharply pointed posterior end;
numerous discoid chloroplasts; several paramylon (paramylum) bodies; nucleus central; stigma distinct;
flagellum short, about one-fourth the body length (Kudo, 1966).
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Cyclidiopsis;
E. limnophila;
Euglena acus Ehrenberg 1830,
cell body 114 μm long, 8 μm wide,
chloroplasts small disc-shaped, 2-3 μm in diam.,
paramylon bodies rod-shaped, 9-11 μm long, 1.7-3.5 μm wide,
a flagellum about 20 μm long, stigma about 3 μm in diam.,
x 640, Akigase Park, Saitama city, Saitama Pref., Japan, March 2002 by Y. Tsukii
31 μm
63 μm
94 μm; x 640
Euglena acus,
cell body 107 μm long, 6 μm wide,
chloroplasts small disc-shaped, about 2 μm in diam.,
x 640, Akigase Park, Saitama city, Saitama Pref., Japan, March 2002 by Y. Tsukii
31 μm
63 μm
94 μm; x 640
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