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Nematode

Phylum: Nematoda

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Found in a tub of rain water; rural SW Pennsylvania

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Comments (5)
William_Dembowski
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.
William_Dembowski
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.
HemaShah
this is a parasite ,isn't it?

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