NOUN
- comb jellies; sea acorns; a small phylum formerly considered a class of Coelenterata
How To Use Ctenophora In A Sentence
- The other diploblastic phylum, the Ctenophora, surprisingly, has not been reported to have septate junctions.
- Of particular interest in this regard are animals in the early diverging non-bilaterian phyla Porifera, Placozoa, Cnidaria, and Ctenophora.
- Ctenophora or comb-jellyfish are completely different creatures which do not have metagenesis and do not bear cnidae.
- Members of the phylum Ctenophora bear some general similarities to cnidarian medusae including a gelatinous mesenchymal layer and a symmetrical organization around an aboral / oral axis.
- Cnidaria and Ctenophora are now classified as separate phyla, and the term "coelenterate" sent off to the rubbish heap of obsolete biological terms. New art
- (combs), from which they take their name of Ctenophorae, with the ambulacral (locomotive) apparatus of the echinoderms. Louis Agassiz His Life and Correspondence
- Pelagic species were from the Chaetognatha, Cnidaria, Crustacea, Ctenophora, and Mollusca, and benthic species were from the Chordata, Crustacea, Mollusca, and Echinodermata.
