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EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PHYCOLOGY
Volume 48, Issue 3, Pages 260-267Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/09670262.2013.809479
Keywords
Euglenaria clepsydroides sp; nov; Euglena gymnodinioides; Euglena undulata; Euglenea; Euglenophyta; Lepocinclis constricta; rDNA; taxonomy
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- Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education (MNiSW) [N N303 796040]
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In this paper, we describe a new photosynthetic euglenoid species, Euglenaria clepsydroides Zakry, sp. nov., found in Poland. A large population of this species exists in a few, small, eutrophic bodies of water inside the Masurian Landscape Park (covering a part of the Masurian Lake District in Poland). The characteristic and atypical (hourglass-like) cell shape sets it well apart from the other species that have been described up to now. This atypical cell shape has so far been observed only in three species - Lepocinclis constricta, Euglena undulata and Euglena gymnodinioides - whose other morphological characteristics, such as the number and morphology of chloroplasts, the lack of mucocysts, and nuclear SSU rDNA sequence data, exclude the possibility that they could be close relatives of Euglenaria clepsydroides. On the phylogenetic tree, the new species is situated within the Euglenaria clade. While it is a sister group of the clade that includes representatives of Euglenaria anabaena, the two species are clearly morphologically distinct.
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