- The
phylum has a wide
range of body forms,
including the egg-shaped
cydippids with a pair of
retractable tentacles that
capture prey, the flat, generally...
- monophyletic, that is, more than one
common ancestor is
believed to exist.
Cydippids have
bodies that are more or less rounded,
sometimes nearly spherical...
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infusoriform larva Cnidarians planula (= stereogastrula),
actinula Ctenophora cydippid larvae Platyhelminthes Turbellaria: Müller's larva, Götte's larva; Trematoda:...
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Anatomical diagram of a
cydippid comb jelly....
-
Mertensia ovum, also
known as the
Arctic comb
jelly or sea nut, is a
cydippid comb
jelly or ctenop****
first described as
Beroe ovum by
Johan Christian...
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Pelagic ctenop****s: (a)
Beroe ovata, (b)
unidentified cydippid (c) "Tortugas red"
cydippid, (d)
Bathocyroe fosteri, (e)
Mnemiopsis leidyi, and (f) Ocyropsis...
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Pelagic ctenop****s — (a)
Beroe ovata, (b)
unidentified cydippid, (c) "Tortugas Red"
cydippid, (d)
Bathocyroe fosteri, (e)
Mnemiopsis leidyi, and (f)...
- a
cydippid, left
tentacle deplo****,
right retracted Deep-sea ctenop****
trailing tentacles studded with
tentilla (sub-tentacles) Egg-shaped
cydippid ctenop****...
- the jet of
expelled water drives them
backwards very quickly.
Unlike cydippids, the
movements of lobates'
combs are
coordinated by
nerves rather than...
-
named for him, the A. D.
Bache of 1871 and its
successor in 1901. The
cydippid ctenop****
Pleurobrachia bachei A. Ag****iz, 1860 was
named for him; it...
