Bathyctena Mortensen 1932

An undescribed species of deep-water ctenophore with a dark stomach

Food is captured on the sticky tentacles; Diet unknown

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

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