Comb Jellies (Ctenophora) is a Browse By group of the Nature Atlas that gathers the comb jellies of the phylum Ctenophora, which swim with rows of beating combs. An entry belongs here when its own cited article states that it is a comb jelly. It excludes true jellyfish, which are cnidarians. Members are placed by the classification their cited article gives, not by common name or appearance alone.
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Mnemiopsis (Wikipedia)
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Mnemiopsis leidyi, the warty comb jelly or sea walnut, is a species of tentaculate ctenophore (comb jelly).
Wikipedia: Ctenophora
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Ctenophora (; from Ancient Greek κτείς (kteis) 'comb' and φέρω (pherō) 'to carry') or ctenophores (), commonly known as comb jellies, is a basal phylum of marine invertebrate animals notable for their unique aquatic locomotion using groups of cilia (commonly referred to as "combs").
Wikipedia: Pleurobrachia
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Pleurobrachia is a common genus of Ctenophora (an exclusively marine phylum).
Wikipedia: Venus girdle
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The Venus girdle (Cestum veneris) is a comb jelly in the family Cestidae.
GBIF: Beroe Muller, 1776
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phylum: Ctenophora
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