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).
E. ehrenbergii 200 μm |
E. gigas 390 x 35, 360 x 40 μ 380 x 38, 370 x 50 μ |
E. fundoversata 194 x 44 μm |
Euglena sp.2 μm |