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...
- 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...
- large, broad and quite flat cerata. In these nudibranchs the cerata lack cnidosacs. The most common D. albolineata is translucent with opalescent white outlining...
- 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...
- subapical band and the digestive gland is usually orange or yellow. The cnidosac is opaque white. The upper half of the rhinop****s have papillae on the...
- alternately. The color of digestive gland duct is bright red but the apical cnidosac is white in color. The jaw plates are purplish red and they show through...
- to the digestive gland and a small spot or ring of opaque white at the cnidosac. The rhinop****s are annulate. F. pricei have a maximum length of 25mm...