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Euglenophyceae: Euglenales
Mastigophora: Euglenida

 Euglena gaumei

Euglena gaumei Genus: Spindle, cylindrical or band-form; pellicle usually marked by longitudinal or spiral striae; 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).
Species:
Similar species -->> E. oxyuris; E. tripteris

Euglena gaumei, body 113 μm long, two oval paramylon (paramylum) rings, small ellipsoidal paramylons located anteriorly, small discoid chloroplasts, small stigma, pellicle with longitudinal striae, stigma small, x 400, x 640, Japan, 199? by Y. Tsukii
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Euglena Euglena Euglena

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