Vallicula
''Vallicula'' is a genus of ctenophora in the family Coeloplanidae Coeloplanidae is a family of comb jellies. It contains two genera. References Animal families Tentaculata {{Ctenophore-stub ..., containing a single species, ''Vallicula multiformis''. References Monotypic ctenophore genera {{Ctenophore-stub ...
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Coeloplana Astericola
''Coeloplana astericola'', the creeping comb jelly, is a species of benthic comb jelly from the tropical western Indo-Pacific region that lives as an episymbiont on starfish such as '' Echinaster luzonicus''. Description Platyctenids are unlike most other comb jellies in being bottom dwellers. They resemble flatworms in general appearance, being flattened dorso-ventrally and roughly oval in shape. The comb rows bearing bands of cilia, typical of comb jellies, are absent, but the anterior end of the animal bears a pair of well-developed, retractable tentacles that can be extended for feeding. The underside of the comb jelly is a "creeping sole", formed from the everted lining of the pharynx, and on this it can move over the surface of the starfish. It has irregular red and white markings. Ecology This comb jelly lives symbiotically on the aboral (upper) surface of starfish such as the banded bubble star, '' Echinaster callosus'', and the Luzon sea star, '' Echinaster luzonicus'' ...
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Coeloplana
''Coeloplana'' is a genus of ctenophores, which are marine invertebrates, or comb jellies. Species include: * '' Coeloplana agniae'' Dawydoff, 1930 * '' Coeloplana anthostella'' Song & Hwang, 2010 * ''Coeloplana astericola'' Mortensen, 1927 * '' Coeloplana bannwarthii'' Krumbach, 1933 * '' Coeloplana bocki'' Komai, 1920 * '' Coeloplana duboscqui'' Dawydoff, 1930 * '' Coeloplana echinicola'' Tanaka, 1932 * '' Coeloplana fishelsoni'' Alamaru, Brokovich & Loya, 2015 * '' Coeloplana gonoctena'' Krempf, 1920 * '' Coeloplana huchonae'' Alamaru, Brokovich & Loya, 2015 * '' Coeloplana indica'' Devanesen and Varadarajan, 1942 * '' Coeloplana komaii'' Utinomi, 1963 * '' Coeloplana krusadiensis'' Devanesen and Varadarajan, 1942 * '' Coeloplana lineolata'' Fricke, 1970 * '' Coeloplana loyai'' Alamaru & Brokovich, 2015 * '' Coeloplana mellosa'' Gershwin, Zeidler & Davie, 2010 * '' Coeloplana mesnili'' Dawydoff, 1938 * '' Coeloplana meteoris'' Thiel, 1968 * '' Coeloplana metschnikowii'' Kowalevs ...
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Animal Families
Animals are multicellular, eukaryotic organisms in the biological kingdom Animalia. With few exceptions, animals consume organic material, breathe oxygen, are able to move, can reproduce sexually, and go through an ontogenetic stage in which their body consists of a hollow sphere of cells, the blastula, during embryonic development. Over 1.5 million living animal species have been described—of which around 1 million are insects—but it has been estimated there are over 7 million animal species in total. Animals range in length from to . They have complex interactions with each other and their environments, forming intricate food webs. The scientific study of animals is known as zoology. Most living animal species are in Bilateria, a clade whose members have a bilaterally symmetric body plan. The Bilateria include the protostomes, containing animals such as nematodes, arthropods, flatworms, annelids and molluscs, and the deuterostomes, containing the echinoderms and ...
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