Heteronema trispira | |
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Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Phylum: | Euglenozoa |
Class: | Euglenida |
Genus: | Heteronema |
Species: | H. trispira
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Binomial name | |
Heteronema trispira
Matvienko, 1938
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Heteronema trispira is a spirally twisted flagellated euglenoid from the genus Heteronema first described by Olexandra Matvienko in 1938. [1] [2]
Heteronema trispira has a spindle-shaped body up to 130 μm long, twisted into a spiral with three characteristic counterclockwise turns. It has a central nucleus, two long flagella and an apparently smooth periplast that tapers to a "snout-like" extension. The cell is filled with very small paramylon grains. [2]
One specimen was described as containing phagocytosed algae. [2]
H. trispira is rare, [3]: 5 known only from a few isolated observations since 1938. [2] Observations have been recorded from wetlands in Ukraine, [1] [4] Bulgaria [5] and Germany. [2] One cell was recorded from a freshwater lake in Florida. [3]: 17
Heteronema trispira | |
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Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Phylum: | Euglenozoa |
Class: | Euglenida |
Genus: | Heteronema |
Species: | H. trispira
|
Binomial name | |
Heteronema trispira
Matvienko, 1938
|
Heteronema trispira is a spirally twisted flagellated euglenoid from the genus Heteronema first described by Olexandra Matvienko in 1938. [1] [2]
Heteronema trispira has a spindle-shaped body up to 130 μm long, twisted into a spiral with three characteristic counterclockwise turns. It has a central nucleus, two long flagella and an apparently smooth periplast that tapers to a "snout-like" extension. The cell is filled with very small paramylon grains. [2]
One specimen was described as containing phagocytosed algae. [2]
H. trispira is rare, [3]: 5 known only from a few isolated observations since 1938. [2] Observations have been recorded from wetlands in Ukraine, [1] [4] Bulgaria [5] and Germany. [2] One cell was recorded from a freshwater lake in Florida. [3]: 17