What's the difference between ctenophora and jellyfish?

Ctenophora


Definition:

  • (n. pl.) A class of Coelenterata, commonly ellipsoidal in shape, swimming by means of eight longitudinal rows of paddles. The separate paddles somewhat resemble combs.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Secondarily sensitive receptor balancer cells comprise the gravity receptor in the aboral organ-polivalent organ of Ctenophora.
  • (2) As a rule, the two mediatros were connected with different receptor systems (Ctenophora) or with the synaptic structures of various parts of the chain: receptor--neuron--effector (Medusa, Annelids).
  • (3) Electron microscopic and cytochemical studies of the synapses of the gravity receptors in Coelenterata, Ctenophora, Annelids and Molluscs has shown the mediators both of cholinergic and adrenergic systems.
  • (4) Ctenophora are phylogenetically the first animals which created receptor cell supplied with a single flagellar kinocilium connected with the otolithic apparatus.
  • (5) For the first time it was discovered in Ctenophora.
  • (6) Phylogenetic analyses undertaken using different methods showed deep radiations of phyla such as Ctenophora, Cnidaria and Placozoa but also for groups of Porifera of low taxonomic rank.
  • (7) We survey the structure of the mitochondrial genome in representatives of the four extant cnidarian classes and in the phylum Ctenophora.
  • (8) They were found in Ctenophora, Leptomedusa and the gastropod Janthina.

Jellyfish


Definition:

  • (n.) Any one of the acalephs, esp. one of the larger species, having a jellylike appearance. See Medusa.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) When Matt Slater went swimming with his dog Mango in a Cornish estuary this month, he bumped into a barrel jellyfish.
  • (2) In-hospital resuscitation from unresponsive circulatory arrest should now involve intravenously-administered verapamil (or its equivalent) and additional box-jellyfish antivenom, while the patient is being monitored.
  • (3) The ultrastructure and major soluble proteins of the transparent eye lens of two cubomedusan jellyfish, Tripedalia cystophora and Carybdea marsupialis, have been examined.
  • (4) I was sitting in the room, reading all the negativity and death threats, and by now the helium balloons were half-full, hovering like jellyfish.
  • (5) I know a little about the jellyfishes of Australia because when I worked there for the Guardian, poisonous species such as the box jellyfish would occasionally kill a luckless swimmer off the tropical north coast.
  • (6) The survey for the UK, which asks people to report jellyfish they see in the sea or on beaches, comes after a mass invasion of thousands of miles of the Mediterranean coastline by millions of jellyfish in June, affecting tourists who head there in the summer.
  • (7) Both women reported having been stung by jellyfish a month earlier.
  • (8) These cases corroborate the vascular and neurogenic injury, which previously have been reported in experimental animals and in human patients, that may result from jellyfish venoms.
  • (9) Contact with the tentacles of the jellyfish had produced characteristic whiplash-like weals on the skin.
  • (10) Among the newly created MCZs are Mounts Bay, covering St Michael’s Mount and the Marazion where seagrass, stalked jellyfish and crayfish live, and Greater Haig Fras, the only substantial area of rocky reef in the Celtic Sea.
  • (11) The few skin reactions obtained confirm the low dermototoxicity of the jellyfish studied.
  • (12) Jellyfish stings should be recognised as an unusual variant of the numerous causes which have been described for Mondor's disease.
  • (13) From intrepid turtles to pioneering jellyfish, a host of animals have made their mark as the unsung heroes of space exploration.
  • (14) Mechanisms that cause reentry were defined in rings of tissue cut from jellyfish as early as 1906 by Mayer.
  • (15) Also featured are the puffer fish, dung beetle, veiled chameleon and moon jellyfish.
  • (16) It's hard not to describe this creature without resorting to multiple similes – it's like a mushroom, an umbrella, a beating heart, an alien lifeform – all of which diminish its glory, as indeed does the word "jellyfish".
  • (17) This isn’t just about the effect on other species,” said Stefano Piraino, a jellyfish expert at the University of Salento, and one of the 18 signatories.
  • (18) Jellyfish appear to be on the increase globally, which may be part of a natural cycle or linked to factors caused by humans such as pollution, over-fishing or even climate change, experts said.
  • (19) Aequorin, a Ca(II)-sensitive bioluminescent protein from jellyfish, emits light at 469 nm from an excited state of a substituted pyrazine (oxyluciferin) which results from the oxidation of a chromophore molecule that is noncovalently bound to the protein.
  • (20) A new cytolysin has been isolated from the nematocysts of the jellyfish, Rhizostoma pulmo, and named rhizolysin.

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