Ctenophora
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Ctenophora or ctenophores, commonly known as comb jellies, is a basal phylum of marine invertebrate animals notable for their unique aquatic locomotion using groups of cilia. They inhabit marine habit
Comb jelly
Cydippid larva of Bolinopsis sp., a few millimetres long
Light diffracting along the comb rows of a Mertensia ovum, left tentacle deployed, right tentacle retracted
"Tortugas red", with trailing tentacles and clearly visible sidebranches, or tentilla
Beroidae
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Beroidae is a family of ctenophores or comb jellies more commonly referred to as the beroids. It is the only known family within the monotypic order Beroida and the class Nuda. They are distinguished
Ctenophora
…the egg-shaped cydippids with a pair of retractable tentacles that capture prey; the flat, generally combless platyctenids; and the large-mouthed beroids, which prey on other ctenophores. Almost all ctenophores are predators, feeding on prey ranging from microscopic larvae and rotifers to the adults of…
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A beroid ctenophore with mouth gaping at left
Beroe ovata on the Black Sea coast