Survey of the botanical Phyla
Euglenophyta ![[audio pronunciation]](../sounds/speaker.gif)
Common name
Euglenas
Synonyms
None
Mode of nutrition
Autotrophic: green chloroplasts (secondary), or heterotrophic by ingestion
Habitat
Freshwater
Growth habit
Unicellular
Cell wall
None (a proteinaceous pellicle beneath the plasma membrane provides stiffness)
Undulipodia (“flagella”)
Whiplash; one long for swimming, one short, confined to the vacuole
Food storage
Paramylon
Clonal reproduction
Mitosis by unicells
Sexual reproduction
None known
Representative genera
Recognized by
Green but no cell wall, eyespot often prominent