Euglena "skeleton"

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Olympusman
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Euglena "skeleton"

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This appears to be the shell of an Euglena acus. The chloroplasts are empty but the eye spot is still red.

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Post by Bruce Taylor »

Nice. :) Euglena acus has been moved to the genus Lepocinclis. There is a colorless sub-species: Lepocinclis acus var. hyalina Klebs 1883. The images I've seen of that guy are narrower, with larger & fewer paramylon bodies.

This might be also be a species of Khawkinea (by definition, colorless, like Astasia, but with an eyespot, like Euglena). The micro*scope website has a pic of a Khawkinea acutecaudata that looks somewhat similar to this guy, but no description is provided there. (Some species of Khawkinea have been subsumed into Euglena, lately, but I don't know about that one).
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Post by Olympusman »

Thanks, Bruce. My Google searches of Lepocinclus acum all had chlorophyll, but the images (as rare as they are) of Khawkinea showed colorless subjects similar to my find.
I have added your notes to my copy of "How to know the Protozoa."
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