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Euglenophyceae: Euglenales
Mastigophora: Euglenida: Euglenina

Euglena gaumei

Euglena gaumei Genus: Spindle, cylindrical or band-form; pellicle usually marked by longitudinal or spiral striae; 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).
Species:
Similar species -->> tripteris; E. oxyuris


Euglena gaumei ??, stock Giw-4, axenic culture, cell body 90 μm long, 13 μm wide, with two ring-shaped paramylon bodies, x 640, a pond near Asami-numa (Azami-numa), Iwajuku, Kasakake town, Gunma Pref., Japan, October 2001 by Y. Tsukii
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