Species: 70-170 μm long, 25-36 μm wide; cell body cylindrical; rounded anteriorly & tapered posteriorly; spiral stiation; nucleus posterior; flagellum longer than body; stigma about 7 μm in diam., many fusiform chloroplasts aligned with the striae; numerous haematochrome granules; paramylum bodies ovoid (Kudo, 1966).

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E. schmitzii or E. chadefaudii? 77 x 15 μm Sayama Saitama, 2001	E. schmitzii or E. chadefaudii? 77 x 15 μm Iwajuku Gunma, 2001	E. schmitzii or E. chadefaudii? 83 x 18 μm Kosugi Toyama, 2002	E. schmitzii or E. chadefaudii ? 78 x 17 μm Furu-tone river Kasukabe Saitama, 2004
E. schmitzii ? μm Shiraoka Saitama, 2003	E. schmitzii ? 85 x 19 μm Japan, 2004	E. schmitzii ? 70 x 20 μm Futayo-no-ike Haguro mountain Yamagata, 2005	E. schmitzii or E. chadefaudii? 83 x 17.5 μm near Omine mt. Minakami Gunma, 2007
E. schmitzii or E. chadefaudii? 85 x 23 μm Kareki-numa Nikko Tochigi, 2008	E. schmitzii or E. chadefaudii? 110 x 20 μm Nabekura highland Iiyama Nagano, 2008	E. schmitzii or E. chadefaudii? 85 x 20 μm Kashibaru marsh Karatsu Saga, 2008

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