Tentaculate Comb Jellies
Tentaculata
Tentaculata is a class of comb jellies. The common feature of this class is a pair of long, feathery, contractile tentacles, which can be retracted into specialised ciliated sheaths. In some species, the primary tentacles are reduced and they have smaller, secondary tentacles. The tentacles have colloblasts, which are sticky-tipped cells that trap small prey.
8 branches of this class, most-observed first
Lobate Comb Jellies
orderLobata
Cydippids
orderCydippida
Benthic Comb Jellies
orderPlatyctenida
Cestida
orderCestida
Thalassocalycida
orderThalassocalycida
Cryptolobiferida
orderCryptolobiferida
Ganeshida
orderGaneshida
Cambojiida
orderCambojiida
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 117708.