Species: cell body spindle-form, plastic, (50)-78-85-(95) μm long, 14.5-19 (21) μm wide; flagellum 1-1.5 times longer than body; pellicle with herical lines; ; many discoid chloroplasts; no pyrenoids; many rod-shaped paramyllum bodies (Illustrations of The Japanese Fresh-water Algae, 1977).
Cells 46~86��m long, 12~25��m broad; moderately metabolic; fusiform or sometimes cylindrical, anterior end slightly narrowed and rounded, posterior end conically attenuated into a short, pointed hyaline cauda; pellicle spirally striated, 9~11 striae per 10��m; chloroplasts numerous, parietal, without pyrenoid, disk-shaped, 4~6��m in diameter; paramylon grains numerous, small oval to rod-shaped, scattered throughout the protoplasm; nucleus spherical, lying just behind the middle, 10~16��m in diameter; eyespot prominent, large, curved lamella-shaped with convex face outward, 4~7��m in length; locomotory flagellum, one to one and half body length, easily shedding; movement slowly swimming and rotating. (by Chi Ling Wang)

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E. proxima μm Taiwan, 199?	E. proxima ? 98 μm Saitama, 1999	E. proxima 85 x 22 μm near Akai wetland Aizuwakamatsu Fukushima, 2005	E. proxima 78 μm Japan, 199?
E. proxima 76-101 μm Saitama, 1999	E. proxima 75 x 17 μm Akao Sakado Saitama, 2004	E. proxima ? 66 x 18 μm Saitama, 2001	E. proxima ? 60 x 17 μm Saitama, 2001

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