Definition of Cnidosac. Meaning of Cnidosac. Synonyms of Cnidosac

- A cnidosac is an anatomical feature that is found in the group of sea slugs known as aeolid nudibranchs, a clade of marine opisthobranch gastropod molluscs...
- against ****ure prey. The nematocysts are collected in specialized sacs (cnidosacs) at the tip of the animal's cerata. Because G. atlanticus concentrates...
- organisms store nematocysts of digested prey at the tips of their cerata. Cnidosac, the sac in which an aeolid nudibranch stores the cnidocytes from its prey...
- distinguished from other nudibranchs by their possession of cerata containing cnidosacs. Superfamily Flabellinoidea (= Pleuroprocta) Bergh, 1889 Family Apataidae...
- gland, which may extend into the cerate and often has tips that contain cnidosacs (stinging cells absorbed from prey species and then used by the nudibranch)...
- cells or nematocysts are p****ed unharmed through the digestive system to cnidosacs at the tips of the cerata. Here the nematocysts mature and are then used...
- family Trinchesiidae which feed on hydroids. Adult Phestilla have no cnidosacs. This genus has been investigated using DNA phylogeny and undescribed...
- because they contain in their tissues many examples of an organ called the cnidosac which contains undischarged cnidocytes (also known as nematocysts). These...
- (zoology) Respiratory system of gastropods ctenidium (mollusc) cerata cnidosac pneumostome siphon (mollusc) circulatory system of gastropods excretory...
- this stage additional pairs of cerata appear and on their tip the filled cnidosacs can be detected for the first time. As development proceeds, body elongation...