Sea gooseberry with tentacles expanded for feeding. Members of the phylum Ctenophora are known as sea-gooseberries or comb-jellies, and are startlingly...
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Images of the Sea gooseberry (Pleurobrachia pileus) on ARKive.
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Britannica online encyclopedia article on sea gooseberry (invertebrate), either of two cosmopolitan genera of invertebrate marine animals in the phylum...
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Despite the fact that the sea gooseberry is gelatinous zooplankton, it looks a lot like a "jellyfish". However, this creature is a ctenophore, not a cnidarian, and instead of stinging cells, it has retractable tentacles that are sticky and collect their food.
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Sea Gooseberries move by beating cilia, which are arranged in comblike rows along their bodies. If they are touched they produce flashes of light which are...
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Encyclopedia: Ctenophore
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The phylum Ctenophora, commonly known as Comb Jellies, is a phylum classically grouped with Cnidaria in the Coelenterata infrakingdom. The phylum includes the sea gooseberry (Pleurobrachia pileus) and...
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This juvenile comb jelly, commonly known as a Sea Gooseberry, is of the order Cydippida, family Pleurobrachiidae. The body of this organism is spherical in...
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Introduction to the Ctenophora, otherwise known as "comb jellies" "sea gooseberries" or "Venus's girdles." Ctenophores, variously known as comb jellies, sea gooseberries, sea walnuts, or Venus's girdles, are voracious predators. Unlike cnidarians, with which they share several superficial similarities,
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www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/cnidaria/ctenophora.html
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Misc: Sea-gooseberries can easily be mistaken for in the Arctic more widespread Mertensia ovum. Adult individuals of this species are longer and slimer and can be up to 5,5 cm long. When the sea-gooseberry glides through the water it drags its sticky, but non-poisonous tentacles after itself.
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