Species Profile
Ctenoplana
Creeping comb jelly
KingdomAnimalia
PhylumCtenophora
ClassTentaculata
OrderUnknown
FamilyUnknown
Introduction
Ctenoplana lives in shallow marine waters.
It is free-living and carnivorous.
Important for evolutionary studies.
Size & Structure
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Flattened body
02
Creeping habit
03
Reduced comb plates
04
Transparent appearance
Ctenoplana — 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 small invertebrates
Part of benthic food web
Indicator of shallow marine habitats
Economic Importance
Evolutionary research importance
Academic studies
Marine biodiversity documentation