Sep 10, 2020
“When Zakryś was naming Euglena smulkowskiana, she was relying on what she could see, on the bits of morphology that made it seem more like Euglena and less like other organisms. But later analysis of the organism’s DNA would reveal...that this Euglena was actually a Phacus-- a subset of euglenoid. A species whose name “phacus” means “lentil” in Greek...”
Journey to the Microcosmos- How to Name a Microbe
Images Originally Captured by Jam’s Germs
Phacus 400x, Phacus paraorbicularis 400x, Phacus paraorbicularis 400x, Phacus anocoelus 600x, Phacus gigas & Stentor coeruleus, Phacus mangini 400x