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Class: Spirotrichia
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free-swimming ciliate protozoa     Stylonychia
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Subclass: Hypotrichia
Capel Road garden, 2 December 2015
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From my Capel Road garden pond (before this was replaced with a newer one).

These have proved to be quite common in the pond, and indeed in any water in the garden containing decaying plant matter.