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Sea Walnut (Mnemiopsis leidyi)

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Sea Walnut, also called the warty comb jelly, is a species of tentaculate ctenophore native to western Atlantic coastal waters that has become established as an invasive species in European and western Asian waters. Three species were once named in the genus Mnemiopsis, but most zoologists now regard them as different ecological forms of the single species Mnemiopsis leidyi.

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