image_list image_listE

Filosea: Gromiida: Euglyphina: Euglyphidae

 Euglypha brachiata
Leidy

Euglypha Genus: Test round or oval in cross-section; pseudostome terminal with dentate scales (Illustrated Guide, 1985).
Species: Test elongate, not compressed, slightly constricted near the center, 92-120 μm long, 30-37 μm wide, pseudostome 12-15 μm wide; the neck with 2-6 long recurved spines, (Cash & Wailes, The British Freshwater Rhizopoda and Heliozoa vol. III, 1915).

Euglypha brachiata Leidy ?, test 155 μm long, 58 μm wide, L/W=2.7, pseudostome 21 μm wide, P/W=0.4, scales elliptical, 20-24 μm long, 17-19 μm wide, L/W=1.3, x 640, Nidanuma (Nitanuma), Tsuchiyu-onsen, Fukushima city, Fukushima Pref., Japan, October 28, 2005 by Y. Tsukii
scale 31 μm scale 63 μm scale 94 μm; x 640
Euglypha Euglypha Euglypha Euglypha

Please click on images for viewing enlarged.
Copyright Protist Information Server