Amphileptides

Free-floating ciliates

  • 30 – 300 µm
  • elongated ciliates, similar to a bottle (“bottlenecks”)
  • long cilia on flexible neck in some species
  • occasionally green-coloured species, otherwise colourless

 

In activated sludge:

  • in medium sludge load, some species also at low or higher sludge load