Species Profile
Hormiphora
Comb jelly
KingdomAnimalia
PhylumCtenophora
ClassTentaculata
OrderUnknown
FamilyUnknown
Introduction
Hormiphora lives in open marine waters.
Free-swimming and carnivorous.
Used in comparative studies.
Size & Structure
01
Oval transparent body
02
Eight rows of comb plates
03
Pair of long tentacles
04
Colorless appearance
Hormiphora — 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 planktonic organisms
Pelagic ecosystem balance
Nutrient cycling
Economic Importance
Research specimen
Comparative zoology importance
Educational value