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The bloodbelly comb jelly, Lampocteis cruentiventer, is a deep-sea ctenophore known from the Pacific Ocean and formally described in 2001. Its dark red stomach helps conceal flashes produced by bioluminescent prey, because red wavelengths penetrate poorly in the deep sea. Despite its common name and...

Cestum veneris, commonly called Venus's girdle, is a marine ctenophore rather than a true jellyfish. Its transparent, ribbon-like body can reach roughly 1.5 metres in length, and rows of beating cilia produce iridescent bands while providing propulsion. It inhabits warm seas and drifts or swims in o...

Beroe cucumis is a marine comb jelly, or ctenophore, with a transparent, saclike body and rows of cilia that refract light as the animal swims. Unlike tentacle-bearing ctenophores, members of the genus Beroe have a wide mouth and feed on other comb jellies, swallowing prey whole or biting pieces fro...

Haeckelia rubra is a species of cydippid ctenophore, a type of comb jelly, notable for exhibiting kleptocnidae—a biological phenomenon in which the organism sequesters functional stinging cells called nematocysts from cnidarian prey and incorporates them into its own tentacles. Unlike cnidarians, ct...

Pleurobrachia bachei, commonly known as the sea gooseberry, is a small spherical ctenophore found in coastal waters of the North Pacific Ocean. It captures prey such as copepods and other zooplankton using two long, sticky tentacles that can be retracted into sheaths on its body. Like other comb jel...

Mertensia ovum is a species of cydippid ctenophore, commonly known as a comb jelly, predominantly found in Arctic and subarctic marine environments. It possesses a distinctive rounded body with eight ciliary plates used for locomotion and two long, fringed tentacles used for capturing prey. As a pro...

Bathocyroe fosteri is a species of deep-sea lobate ctenophore commonly found in the mesopelagic and bathypelagic zones of the world's oceans. As a lobate comb jelly, it features two large oral lobes and four auricles which it uses to capture food particles. The organism is highly abundant near deep-...

Thalassocalyce inconstans is a species of deep-sea comb jelly classified within the phylum Ctenophora. It is the sole recognized member of the order Thalassocalycida, noted for its bell-shaped, medusa-like physical appearance that distinguishes it from other ctenophores. The species was first scient...

Beroe forskalii is a species of pelagic comb jelly belonging to the order Beroida. Lacking tentacles, this ctenophore is a macrophagous predator that feeds exclusively by engulfing other comb jellies whole using a highly expandable mouth. Because of its specialized diet, it has been extensively stud...

Bathycyroe fosteri is a deep-sea ctenophore (comb jelly) belonging to the family Bathyctenidae. Found in mesopelagic zones worldwide, it is notable for producing blue bioluminescence, a characteristic shared with many deep-sea organisms. Unlike true jellyfish, ctenophores capture prey using collobla...

Pleurobrachia pileus, commonly known as the sea gooseberry, is a species of ctenophore found in coastal waters across the North Atlantic and Arctic Oceans. Unlike true jellyfish, it does not possess stinging cells; instead, it captures copepods and other small zooplankton using a pair of long, stick...

Euplokamis dunlapae is a species of cydippid ctenophore, a type of comb jelly, first scientifically described in 1987. It is notable for its unique prey-capture mechanism, possessing tentacles that contain striated muscle fibers. These specialized helical structures allow the organism to rapidly coi...

Bolinopsis infundibulum is a lobate comb jelly, or ctenophore, found in cold and temperate waters of the North Atlantic and adjoining seas. Although its transparent, gelatinous body resembles that of a jellyfish, it belongs to the phylum Ctenophora and moves using rows of beating cilia called comb p...

Ocyropsis maculata is a ctenophore (family Ocyropsidae) notable for using muscular lobes to swim actively, an unusual locomotion strategy among comb jellies.

Leucothea multicornis is a large lobate ctenophore, commonly called a comb jelly, in the family Leucotheidae. It occurs in tropical and subtropical ocean waters and is recognized by the elongated lateral lobes that extend from its gelatinous body. Like other ctenophores, it moves with rows of ciliar...

Mnemiopsis mccradyi is a historical name for a lobate ctenophore, or comb jelly, described from Charleston Harbor, South Carolina, in 1900. Modern taxonomic databases generally treat it as a junior synonym of Mnemiopsis leidyi, the sea walnut, rather than as a separate sibling species. The accepted...

Leucothea pulchra is a lobate ctenophore, or comb jelly, in the family Leucotheidae and a species of the genus Leucothea. It is associated with the eastern Pacific and has broad oral lobes and elongated auricles, structures used while moving through the water and collecting prey. Like other ctenopho...

Callianira antarctica is a species of lobate ctenophore, commonly called a comb jelly, recorded from Antarctic and sub-Antarctic waters. Like other ctenophores, it moves using rows of fused ciliary plates called comb rows and captures planktonic prey with specialized colloblast cells. Its distributi...

Beroe abyssicola is a species of beroid ctenophore, commonly called a comb jelly, described by Th. Mortensen in 1927. It is a marine deep-water animal recorded in the North Pacific, including waters around Japan and the Arctic, and its type locality is near Vancouver Island at about 400 metres depth...

Bolinopsis vitrea is a species of lobate ctenophore, commonly called a comb jelly, rather than a true jellyfish. It is accepted as a marine species of the northwestern Atlantic and is especially associated with warmer Atlantic waters, including Florida waters. Its soft, lobed body is nearly transpar...

Velamen parallelum is a ribbon-shaped ctenophore in the order Cestida. It lives in tropical and subtropical open-ocean waters and has an unusually flattened, elongated body compared with the rounded forms associated with many other comb jellies. Like other ctenophores, it is a gelatinous marine anim...

Beroe gracilis is a marine ctenophore, or comb jelly, in the family Beroidae. It is a translucent, elongated species that can reach about four centimetres and, like other members of Beroe, lacks tentacles. It captures other ctenophores by opening its mouth widely and drawing them into its pharynx, m...

Hormiphora plumosa is a species of cydippid ctenophore, commonly called a comb jelly rather than a true jellyfish. It lives in the open ocean across multiple ocean basins and has long retractable tentacles equipped with colloblasts, adhesive cells used to capture small zooplankton. The species is di...

Deiopea kaloktenota is a species of comb jelly, or ctenophore, in the family Eurhamphaeidae. It is the sole recognized species in the genus Deiopea, which makes that genus monotypic. The species name is formed from Greek elements associated with beauty and comb-bearing, reflecting terminology used f...

Bathyctena chuni is a marine comb jelly, or ctenophore, in the family Bathyctenidae and order Cydippida. Moser described it in 1909 under the name Mertensia chuni, and World Register of Marine Species currently treats Bathyctena chuni as the accepted combination. Its type records came from deep wate...

Aulacoctena acuminata is a marine ctenophore, or comb jelly, described by Mortensen in 1932. It is the only species in the genus Aulacoctena, which is placed in the monotypic family Aulacoctenidae. As a cydippid ctenophore, it belongs to the tentaculate branch of Ctenophora, a group whose members mo...

Open-ocean lobate ctenophore with a highly transparent body; its epithet 'fugiens' (Latin: fleeing) alludes to its rapid escape response when disturbed.

Pleurobrachia rhodopis is a tentaculate ctenophore in the family Pleurobrachiidae. It is recorded from Pacific and Atlantic waters and belongs to the same genus as Pleurobrachia pileus, commonly known as the sea gooseberry. Although often grouped with jellyfish in general descriptions of marine plan...

Dryodora glandiformis is a small pelagic comb jelly in the order Cydippida. It has a solid, compact body, eight comb rows, no oral lobes, and a pair of tentacles that emerge from short sheaths and lack side branches. The species is recorded from boreal waters in both Arctic and Antarctic regions, wi...