comb jelly
Noun
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Noun
comb jelly
- A jelly-like marine animal of the phylum Ctenophora; a ctenophore.
- 1870, William Dallas, translation of Ernst Haeckel, “On the Organization of Sponges, and their Relationship to the Corals”, The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, fourth series, volume 5, page 7 ↗:
- Comb-jellies (Ctenophoræ).
- 1907, Buel P. Colton, Zoölogy, Heath, part 1, page 330 ↗:
- Ctenophora, the “comb jellies.”
- 1976, Sears Crowell, “An Edwardsiid Larva Parasitic in Mnemiopsis”, Coelenterate Ecology and Behavior, Plenum, ISBN 0-306-30991-2, page 249:
- After contacting the surface of a comb jelly, a larva is often moved about by the comb plates and cilia of the host, but eventually it may stick at a comparatively undisturbed spot.
- 2002, Olivia Judson, Dr. Tatiana's Sex Advice to All Creation, Metropolitan, ISBN 0-8050-6331-5, page 56:
- Have you ever met a comb jelly, or ctenophore?
- 2012, Charles Clover, ‘Up To Our Necks’, Literary Review, issue 399:
- Roberts catalogues the other man-made threats to life in the sea: the introduction of alien species by means of ballast water, such as the warty comb jellies that took over the Black Sea [...].
- 1870, William Dallas, translation of Ernst Haeckel, “On the Organization of Sponges, and their Relationship to the Corals”, The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, fourth series, volume 5, page 7 ↗:
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