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Coral Reefs
The tentacles are tipped with stinging cells used for defense and to capture zooplankton (small animal life) for food. The tiny polyps ...
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Florida Museum of Natural History Ichthyology Department
If you are not careful, stingrays, toadfish, catfish, and jellyfish can inflict harm on swimmers ...
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Sea Wasp | Marine Stinger | Box Jelly
That's where all their nematocysts (stinging capsules contained within cells called cnidocytes located along the tentacles) are located ... . Deadly Toxins What's really amazing is how the stinging cells work. They're little tiny poison darts that are ... Simply by pouring alcohol into the tank they caused the stinging cells to react and release their venom. Hmmm. This means ...
extremescience.com


Velella
They have short tentacles with stinging cells that dangle underwater that they use to hunt. Because they are afloat, they are limited ...
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Journey North: Loggerhead Sea Turtle Experts
War. What protects them from the stinging cells in their eyes and mouth? A. I could not find any references as to why the stinging cells of jellyfish do not affect the eyes ...
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Zooplankton - MarineBio.org
Both of these animals are predators and have stinging tentacles. They are not found often in fresh water and in the ocean they ... under Cnidaria but have recently been distinguished from other jellyfish because they lack the characteristic stinging cells of other jellyfish known as nematocysts. Comb jellies effectively keep copepod zooplankton levels in ...
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Monterey Bay Aquarium: Tide Pool Video
Anemones open like flowers and get ready to dine by using the stinging cells (nematocysts) on their tentacles to paralyze small animals. Barnacles unfurl their feathery legs to sweep ...
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M39.htm
Ctenophores are triploblastic , with a true mesoderm ). Adhesive structures called coloblasts (but no cnidoblasts or stinging cells as in Cnidaria ). A diffuse nervous system consists of a nerve net, somewhat more specialized ...
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The Wonders of the Seas: Cnidarians
Cnidarians have tentacles with stinging cells in their tips which are used to capture and subdue prey. In fact, the phylum name "Cnidarian" literally means "stinging creature." The stinging cells are called cnidocytes and contain ...
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O.R.G. Educational Film:
The tentacles are covered with microscopic stinging cells, called nematocysts. The stinging cells are used to subdue the prey, consisting of plankton and tiny bits ... , the crab has several anemones. Anemones are invertebrates closely related to coral, which have stinging tentacles, to capture food. Most anemones live their lives in one spot, anchored to ...
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