Euglenophyceae:
Euglenales
Mastigophora: Euglenida: Euglenina
Euglena hemichromata
Ehrenberg
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).
Species:
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Eugelna hemichromata ??,
cell body 125 μm long, 25 μm wide,
parietal chloroplast leaf-shaped (without pyrenoids ?),
pellicle covered with small granules which are spirally arranged,
x 400, x 640, Mizumoto Park, Katsushika-ku, Tokyo, Japan, July 2001 by Y. Tsukii
50 μm
100 μm
150 μm; x 400 :
31 μm
63 μm
94 μm; x 640
Euglena ??,
Cells flattened by cover glass,
chloroplasts ribbon-like ??,
cell body μm long, μm wide,
x 400, x 640, Mizumoto Park, Katsushika-ku, Tokyo, Japan, July 2001 by Y. Tsukii
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