Species Profile
Pleurobrachia
Sea gooseberry
KingdomAnimalia
PhylumCtenophora
ClassTentaculata
OrderUnknown
FamilyUnknown
Introduction
Pleurobrachia inhabits marine waters.
Pelagic and carnivorous.
Used as a representative ctenophore.
Size & Structure
01
Spherical transparent body
02
Eight comb plates
03
Two long retractile tentacles
04
Bioluminescent
Pleurobrachia — 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 zooplankton
Marine food web component
Energy transfer in pelagic zones
Economic Importance
Zoology teaching specimen
Research on locomotion
Marine ecology studies