Species Profile
Beroe
Comb jelly
KingdomAnimalia
PhylumCtenophora
ClassNuda
OrderUnknown
FamilyUnknown
Introduction
Beroe lives in marine waters.
Free-swimming and carnivorous.
Important predator in ctenophore community.
Size & Structure
01
Sack-like body
02
Large mouth opening
03
Eight comb plates
04
No tentacles
Beroe — 3D Model
General Features
- Coelom
- Acoelomate
- Body plan
- Blind sac body plan
- Germ layer
- Diploblastic
- Metamerism
- Absent
- Body symmetry
- Biradial
- Fertilization
- External
- Digestion type
- Incomplete, extracellular
- Nervous system
- Nerve net
- Excretory organ
- Absent
- Body temperature
- Poikilothermic, stenohaline
- Circulatory type
- Type-I (absent)
- Development type
- Direct
- Respiratory type
- Diffusion
- Mode of excretion
- Ammonotelism
- Circulation system
- Gastrovascular
- Skeleton structure
- Absent
- Level of Organisation
- Tissue level
- Regulation of Osmosis
- Osmoconformer
Ecology
Predator of other ctenophores
Population control
Pelagic food web stability
Economic Importance
Ecological balance studies
Marine food web research
Zoological education