Description

Description: Overall, body length of the sampled specimens varied from three to six cm. The biggest specimen, around 10 cm, was observed in situ (West coast of Ilhéu da Cal, 33 ° 00 ’ 13 ” N 16 ° 23 ’ 34 ” W). The body was elongated, narrow with a noticeable compression in the tentacular axis (Fig. 2 A). Two horn-shaped processes terminating in the long flexible filament are drawn out at the aboral apex (Fig. 2 B). Subtentacular ctene rows extend onto these processes. Reddish-brown ink vesicles with bioluminescent properties follow the path of the substomodeal meridional canals (Fig. 2 C).

Common Names

Taxonomic Hierarchy

Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Ctenophora

Class: Tentaculata

Order: Lobata

Family: Eurhamphaeidae

Genus: Eurhamphaea

Species: Eurhamphaea vexilligera Gegenbaur, 1856