Pleurobrachia

Pleurobrachia
Pleurobrachia bachei with its oral end down
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Ctenophora
Class: Tentaculata
Order: Cydippida
Family: Pleurobrachiidae
Genus: Pleurobrachia
Fleming, 1822
Species

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Pleurobrachia is a common genus of Ctenophora. Along with the genus Hormiphora,[1] it generally has the common name sea gooseberry. It contains the following species:[2]

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