Phylum Ctenophora, Locomotion and Bioluminescence in Ctenophora -
- It is a small phylum with 90 known species. The animals of this phylum are commonly called comb-jellies or sea-walnuts.
- These are exclusively marine, radially symmetrical and diploblastic animals.
- They bear eight external rows of ciliated comb plates, due to which they are named ctenophores; ktene - comb, phoros - bearing.
- They show tissue level of body organization.
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Ctenophores are diploblastic.
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