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Euglenophyceae: Euglenales
Mastigophora: Euglenida

Euglena schmitzii
Gojdics, 1953
= Euglena geniculata Dujardin, 1841

Euglena schmitzii Species: Cell body elongated spindle-shaped or cylindrical, posterior end pointed, 63-92 μm long, 12-18 μm wide; euglenoid movement rare; chloroplasts ribbon-shaped, radiated from two paramylon centers; flagellum about 1/3 to 1/2 of the body length; nucleus ellipsoidal, 10-12 μm long, 7-8 μm wide, located between the two paramylon centers; stigma 4-5 μm long; mucous body granular in shape (An illustrated guide to freshwater zooplankton in Japan, 2000).
Similar species -- > > E. chadefaudii;


Euglena schmitzii (or E. chadefaudii Bourrelly 1951), cell body 85 μm long, 23 μm wide, L/W=, x 640, Kareki-numa marsh, Nikko city (formerly Fujiwara town), Tochigi Pref., Japan, August 2, 2008, collected by Eizaburo Tsukii, photo by Y. Tsukii
scale 31 μm scale 63 μm scale 94 μm; x 640
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Images of collecting locality: Kareki-numa marsh, Nikko city (formerly Fujiwara town), Tochigi Pref., Japan, August 2, 2008 by Eizaburo Tsukii


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