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Euglenophyceae: Euglenales
Mastigophora: Euglenida

Euglena oxyuris
Schmarda

Euglena oxyuris Species: 150-500 μm long, 20-40 μm wide; cylindrical, almost always twisted; anterior end rounded, posterior end pointed; numerous discoid chloroplasts; two ovoid paramylon (paramylum) bodies; stigma large; sluggish (Kudo, 1966). Body flattened, twisted, with longitudinal groove; two oval paramylon (paramylum) rings (How to know the protozoa, 1979).
Similar species -->> tripteris; E. gigas; E. gaumei;


Euglena oxyuris small variety? or E. spirogyra small variety ?, cell body 86 μm long, 10 μm wide, paramylon bodies ring-shaped (11 x 2.5, 9 x 3.5 μm), chloroplasts ellipsoidal, 3 x 2.5 μm, x 640, Higashi-Urawa (Minuma-tanbo), Saitama Pref., Japan, June 2001 by Y. 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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