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Euglenophyceae: Euglenales
Mastigophora: Euglenida

Phacus longicauda
(Ehrenberg) Dujardin 1841

Phacus Genus: Highly flattened; pellicle firm; body form constant (Kudo, 1966). Chloroplasts small, discoid, pyrenoids usually absent; most species flat and leaf-shaped; often with ridges or fins running helically or longitudinally (Illustrated Guide, 1985).
Species: 120-170 μm long, 45-70 μm wide; usually slightly twisted; a long caudal prolongation; flagellum about 1/2 body length; stigma prominent; a discoidal paramylon (paramylum) body central; pellicle longitudinally striated (Kudo, 1966).
var. longicauda: cell body 85-170 μm long, 45-70 μm wide; locomotive flagellum shorter than the cell body; a single paramylon body ring shaped (An Illustrated Guide to Freshwater Zooplankton in Japan, 2000).


Phacus longicauda (Ehrenberg) Dujardin var. longicauda, cell body 64 μm long, μm wide, tail μm, flagellum about 71 μm long, x 400, x 640, Uruguay, November 1999, photo by Yuuji 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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