Comb jelly

Reproduction,Fisheries,Bioluminescence,Feeding,Jellyfish, Anemones & Relatives

UPROSA ®️ on Instagram: “This image shows the beautifully fragile bioluminescent ‘comb’ jellyfish (Mnemiopsis leidyi). - Bioluminescence is a common feature of…”

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For over a hundred years scientists have assumed that sponges (yep, the animal that inspired your kitchen sponge), are our most distant animal relative. And why not? They sit on the sea floor, filtering water, and generally doing nothing much (they don't have neurons, muscles or true tissues). Sponges certainly look like they belong in ancient history*. Then in

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Leidy’s Comb Jelly

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Comb Jellyfish

In addition to being weakly bioluminescent in blues and greens, comb jellies produce a rainbow effect similar to that seen on an oil slick, and which is caused by interference of incident light on the eight rows of moving cilia.

Cestum veneris [Venus Girdle comb jelly]

See photos of see-through creatures, from National Geographic.

​The Illuminating World of the CtenophoreCtenophore is a small and absolutely beautiful creature. Known as comb jellies, they use eight longitudinal rows of cilia for locomotion. When the cilia beat, light is scattered, producing a rainbow of colors. The beating combs act like a prism, breaking the light into its color components. Some species of comb jellies (like so many animals in the deep sea) make their own light, called bioluminescence.

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Common names for this comb jelly are American comb jelly. North American comb jelly, sea walnut, warty comb jelly, and comb jellyfish. It is in a group of gelatinous animals called ‘lobate ctenophores’ because of the presence of two large oral lobes. While not sea jellies, comb jellies have a close relationship as is indicated by their translucent gelatinous bodies. However, unlike most sea jellies, they do not sting. It is not a problem in waters of the western Atlantic where it is a native…

873 likes, 4 comments - mysticaquarium on July 20, 2023: "What may appear as a row of lights on the comb jelly, is actually a row of comb-like plates that ..."

Leidy’s Comb Jelly (Mnemiopsis leidyi) by Lance Rogers on Flickr. Comb Jellies are a member of the Eumetazoa clade, the subgroup Radiata and the phyla Ctenophora.