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).
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E. gaumei 113 μm Japan, 1998

E. gaumei 113 x 12 μm Iwajuku Gunma, 2001

E. gaumei 106 x 12 μm Mihashi Park Saitama, 2002

E. gaumei 90 x 13 μm 1/2 twist Iwajuku Gunma, 2001

Similar species -->> E. oxyuris; E. tripteris

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