Biology
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An undescribed species of deep-water ctenophore with a dark stomach
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Trophic Strategy
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Food is captured on the sticky tentacles; Diet unknown
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Habitat
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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
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Comprehensive Description
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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
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Bathyctena: Brief Summary
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French
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Bathyctena est un genre de cténophores de l'ordre des Cydippida, le seul de la famille des Bathyctenidae.
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Bathyctena: Brief Summary
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Bathyctena is een geslacht van ribkwallen uit de klasse van de Tentaculata.
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