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Euglenophyceae: Euglenales
Mastigophora: Euglenida

Euglena oxyuris
Schmarda

Euglena oxyuris Species: 150-500 μm long, 20-40 μm wide; cylindrical, almost always twisted; anterior end rounded, posterior end pointed; numerous discoid chloroplasts; two ovoid paramylon (paramylum) bodies; stigma large; sluggish (Kudo, 1966). Body flattened, twisted, with longitudinal groove; two oval paramylon (paramylum) rings (How to know the protozoa, 1979).
Similar species -->> tripteris; E. gigas; E. gaumei;


Euglena oxyuris, cell body 156 μm long, 18 μm wide (twisted), 25 μm wide (flattened), two ring-shaped paramylon bodies (24 x 7, 24 x 9 μm) present, many chloroplasts small disc-shaped (3-4 μm in diam.), pellicle spirally striated (10 striae within 10 μm), x 400, x 640, Dewa Park, Koshigaya, Saitama Pref., Japan, July 2001 by Y. Tsukii
scale 50 μm scale 100 μm scale 150 μm; x 400 : scale 31 μm scale 63 μm scale 94 μm; x 640
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Cell body flattened by cover glass, x 400, x 640
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