Red eye animal

Red eye animal
Play media file Red eye animal ( Euglena sanguinea )
Systematics
without rank: Euglenozoa without rank: Euglenida without rank: Euglenophyceae without rank: Euglenea Genre : Eye animals ( euglena ) Type : Red eye animal
Scientific name
Euglena sanguinea
Ehrenberg , 1830

The red eye animal ( Euglena sanguinea ) is a species of the protists from the genus of the eye animals ( Euglena ). It occurs in clean standing water.

features

Euglena sanguinea is 55 to 170 microns long. The cells are highly metabolic and spindle-shaped to almost cylindrical. There are chloroplasts -Scheibchen present. The scourge is twice as long as the body. The eye spot is large. The membrane has rows of cusps running in a spiral. The species appears red in color due to hematochrome granules .

supporting documents

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b} Heinz Streble , Dieter Krauter : Life in the water drop. Microflora and microfauna of freshwater. An identification book. Franckh-Kosmos Verlag, Stuttgart 2008, ISBN 978-3-440-11966-2

Web links

Commons : Red-eyed animal ( Euglena sanguinea )  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Euglena sanguinea at www.algaebase.org