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Euglenophyceae: Euglenales
Mastigophora: Euglenida

 Euglena sp.

Euglena 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:

Euglena sp., cell body 156 μm long, 25 μm wide, stigma 8 x 6 μm, nucleus located at anterior half of the cell or at the center, cytoplasm filled with many short paramylon bodies, chloroplasts ??, posterior bluntly pointed forming a short cauda, x 400, x 640,Shiro-numa, Tatebayashi city, Gunma Pref., Japan, June 2001 by Y. Tsukii
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