- How does it move? It is a worm: long, bending, thrashing or gliding
What kind of worm?
Look at the surface: segments, bristles, cilia, or a smooth shiny skin.
- Smooth and shiny, tapered at both ends, thrashing in S-curves→ Nematodes
Segmented, with bundles of bristles along the sides→ Aquatic worms- Soft and flat, gliding smoothly, no segments or bristles→ Small flatworms
Telescopes in and out, creeps like a leech, crowns at the front→ Rotifers- A single long cell that suddenly contracts to a fraction of its length→ Spirostomum