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n. - Comb jellies.

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  • Cnidaria and Ctenophora are now classified as separate phyla, and the term "coelenterate" sent off to the rubbish heap of obsolete biological terms.
  • The book also uses the archaic term "Coelenterata" as a phylum comprising the subphyla Cnidaria (jellyfish and anemones) and Ctenophora (sea gooseberries).
  • For the first time, HMG domain sequences from non-bilaterian phyla (Calcispongia, Demospongiae, Ctenophora and Cnidaria) have been included in a phylogenetic study of...
  • Ctenophora and Medusæ, though one would have supposed he would, from its superficial resemblance to polyps, have placed it among the polyps.
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