Euglenophyceae: 
Euglenales
Mastigophora: Euglenida
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: 
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Similar species -->> E. oxyuris; 
			E. tripteris
Euglena gaumei ?, 
cell body 106 μm long, 12 μm wide, 
x 640, Shukei-ike (pond), Mihashi Park, Saitama city (Omiya), Saitama Pref., Japan, October 2002 by Y. Tsukii
 50 μm
 100 μm
 150 μm; x 400 : 
 31 μm
 63 μm
 94 μm; x 640
Euglena gaumei ?,  
cell body  μm long,  μm wide, 
x 640, Shukei-ike (pond), Mihashi Park, Saitama city (Omiya), Saitama Pref., Japan, October 2002 by Y. Tsukii
Euglena gaumei ?,  
cell body  μm long,  μm wide, 
x 640, Shukei-ike (pond), Mihashi Park, Saitama city (Omiya), Saitama Pref., Japan, October 2002 by Y. Tsukii
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