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- the victim or kills it. Ptychocysts (Glutinant or Adhesive): a sticky surface used to stick to prey, referred to as ptychocysts and found on burrowing...
- small sticky hairs on the thread. Ptychocysts are not used for prey capture — instead the threads of discharged ptychocysts are used for building protective...
- from secreted mucus and threads of nematocyst-like organelles known as ptychocysts. Within the tubes of these ceriantharians, more than one polyp is present...
- are of a single type, there being nematocysts but no spirocysts or ptychocysts. In contrast, the anthozoan life cycle involves a planula larva which...