comb jelly in English

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a marine animal with a jellyfishlike body bearing rows of fused cilia for propulsion. They are typically small planktonic animals and are noted for their luminescence.
The comb jelly introduced to the Black Sea via the shipping industry in the early 1980s, now comprises up to 95 percent of the biomass in the Black Sea.
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1. Quick facts about these voracious carnivores! The Comb Jelly (Ctenophores, Gooseberries, Sea Walnuts, Venus's Girdles, Warty Comb Jelly, Melon Jellyfish)

2. Mnemiopsis leidyi is a species of Ctenophore, or comb jelly, that is native to the western Atlantic Ocean and invasive in many European seas

3. Ctenophore new zealand - Ctenophore stock pictures, royalty-free photos & images spot-winged comb jelly drifting in open water - Ctenophore stock pictures, royalty-free photos & images Cydippid Ctenophore from the deep waters of the Arctic Ocean.

4. Definition of Ctenophore : any of a phylum (Ctenophora) of marine animals superficially resembling jellyfishes but having biradial symmetry and swimming by means of eight bands of transverse ciliated plates — called also comb jelly Other Words from Ctenophore …

5. Ctenophore, byname Comb Jelly, any of the numerous marine invertebrates constituting the phylum Ctenophora. The phylum derives its name (from the Greek ctene, or “comb,” and phora, or “bearer”) from the series of vertical ciliary combs over the surface of the animal

6. Ctenophore: 1 n biradially symmetrical hermaphroditic solitary marine animals resembling jellyfishes having for locomotion eight rows of cilia arranged like teeth in a comb Synonyms: comb jelly Types: show 4 types hide 4 types beroe delicately iridescent thimble-shaped Ctenophores platyctenean Ctenophore have long tentacles and flattened