Green eye animal
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![]() Green eye animal ( Euglena viridis ) |
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Euglena viridis | ||||||||||||
( OV Müller ) Ehrenberg , 1832 |
The green eye animal ( Euglena viridis ) is a type of protist from the genus of the eye animal ( Euglena ).
features
Euglena viridis is 40 to 80 micrometers long and 12 to 20 micrometers wide. The cells are spindle-shaped, they move quickly and jerkily. The scourge is as long as the body.
The ligamentous chloroplasts radiate out from a centrally located pyrenoid and are surrounded by a shell of paramylon grains. Under poor living conditions they are rounded in shape and act like individual, disc-shaped chloroplasts. Small, rounded bodies produce copious amounts of mucus. Palmellae and cysts often form on the muddy subsoil at pond edges .
ecology
Euglena viridis is a common freshwater species in polluted habitats; it is often found on farms in the form of " algal blooms ". It also occurs in ponds, manure puddles and muddy bank zones.
Although the green eye animal does photosynthesis , it can also feed on organic substances heterotrophically .
supporting documents
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c 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 .
- ↑ a b c Gordon F. Leedale, Keith Vickerman : Euglenozoa , In: John J. Lee, GF Leedale, P. Bradbury (Eds.): An Illustrated Guide to the Protozoa . tape 2 . Allen, Lawrence 2000, ISBN 1-891276-23-9 , pp. 1143 .