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Phylum: Nematoda
Found in a tub of rain water; rural SW Pennsylvania
Spotted on Nov 16, 2011
Submitted on Dec 26, 2011
5 Comments
Victoria ... There are tens of thousands of these buggers and it is extremely difficult to tell them apart. Mostly they just hang around (in soil and water) and eat bacteria, fungi, and algae. It is said that they outnumber any other animal in a given location. Since the 1970’s they (especially C. elegans) have become a favorite animal for laboratory and space environment research.
what exactly is it that these do? I like their funny name :)
The number of nematode species is in the tens of thousands and probably half of those are parasitic. This, however, is a free-living kind.
this is a parasite ,isn't it?
Is so pretty!