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Euglenophyceae: Euglenales
Mastigophora: Euglenida

Euglena sp.

Euglena archaeoplastidiata 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).
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Euglena sp. (archaeoplastidiata ?), cell body μm long, μm wide, x 400, x 640, Saitama Pref., Japan, May-June 1999, by Y. Tsukii
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Euglena


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