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Euglenophyceae: Euglenales
Mastigophora: Euglenida

 Euglena gigas
Drezepolski
= Euglena helicoidea

Euglena gigas Species: 198-360 μm long, 20-40 μm wide; long cylindrical, somewhat flattened and slightly-twisted; anterior end rounded, posterior end pointed; numerous discoid chloroplasts; many rod-shaped paramylon (paramylum) bodies; no pyrenoids; nucleus big, cylindrical, lying in the center; stigma large (Zakrys, 1986).

Euglena gigas Drezepolski, cell body 360 μm long, 33 μm wide, 8-9 striae within 10 μm, stigma football-shaped, 12 μm long, 6 μm wide, chloroplasts ellipsoidal, 7 μm long, 5 μm wide, large paramylon bodies 46-50 μm long, 10 μm wide, 5 μm thick, with many small granular paramylon bodies, a nucleus elongated ellipsoidal, 66 μm long, 12 μm wide, x 200, x 400, x 640, Otto-Numa (pond) Chosei-chi, Tsuchiura city, Ibaraki Pref., Japan, July 2002 by Y. Tsukii
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Cell body slightly flattened with coverglass, paramylon bodies changed from rod-shaped to ring-shaped, x 400, x 640
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Ref: Drezepolski (1925) Kosmos, 50: 243.

Zakrys, B. (1986) Contribution to the monograph of Polish members of the genus Euglena Ehrenberg 1830, Nova Hedwigia, 42: 491-540.

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