Species Profile
Cestum
Venus girdle
KingdomAnimalia
PhylumCtenophora
ClassTentaculata
OrderUnknown
FamilyUnknown
Introduction
Cestum inhabits open oceans.
Pelagic and carnivorous.
Known for graceful swimming.
Size & Structure
01
Ribbon-like flattened body
02
Extremely long length
03
Transparent with iridescence
04
Reduced tentacles
Cestum — 3D Model
No 3D model available
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 plankton
Pelagic food chain link
Energy flow in open seas
Economic Importance
Ocean biodiversity importance
Educational reference organism
Research on body form evolution