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Euglenophyceae: Euglenales
Mastigophora: Euglenida

Euglena splendens
Dangeard 1901

Euglena 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 splendens Dangeard 1901 ?, cell body 50 μm long, 17 μm wide, x 640, near bridge, Koma river, Sakado city, Saitama Pref., Japan, December 14, 2003 by Y. Tsukii
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