image_list image_listE

Euglenophyceae: Sphenomonadales
Euglenida: Sphenomonadida: Anisonemidae

 Marsupiogaster sp.
Dujardin

Marsupiogaster Family: Colorless body; two flagella, one directed anteriorly and the other usually posteriorly; stigma absent.
Genus: Oval, flattened, longitudinally striated; anterior flagellum about four times longer than shorter trailing one; fresh or salt water (How to know the protozoa, 1979).
Species:

Marsupiogaster sp., cell body 25 μm long, 15 μm wide, L/W=1.7, anterior flagellum 50 μm long, recurrent flagellum 30 μm long, x 640, Onnenai, Kushiro marsh, Kushiro city, Hokkaido, Japan, October 16, 2005 by Y. Tsukii
scale 50 μm scale 100 μm scale 150 μm; x 400 : scale 31 μm scale 63 μm scale 94 μm; x 640
Marsupiogaster Marsupiogaster Marsupiogaster Marsupiogaster Marsupiogaster Marsupiogaster

Marsupiogaster striata (Schewiakoff): 27 μm long (How to know the protozoa, 1979).

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