Bathyctena sp. Novo
An undescribed species of deep-water ctenophore with a dark stomach
Size
- Adults up to 3 cm
Color & Characteristics
- Transparent, with chocholate brown lips and lining of the stomach
- Body shape oblong to spherical
- Tentacles with number long side branches (tentilla)
- Deployed tentacles 10-30 times body length
- Specimen disintegrates in preservatives
Habitat
- Found below 1000m (bathypelagic)
- Often feeds within severl meters of seafloor, but also observed more then 100m off the seafloorupto Panarctic, mostly in surface waters but down to 500 m
- There may be 2 separate species (one near-bottom, on e higher in water column)
- Likely present throughout the Arctic's deep basins
Feeding
- Foof is captured on the sticky tentacles
- Diet unknown
Life cycle
- Unknown
Page Author: Russ Hopcroft
Created: Oct 30, 2008
