Lampocteis cruentiventer

Description

General: Body slightly compressed in tentacular axis. Viewed from the aboral end, the body has 16 slight ridges, with a broad and prominent row of comb plates occurring on every other ridge. The body consistency is extremely firm. Auricles are short, wide and fleshy, but aren't very mobile. The pair of oral lobes are fleshy, but appear to be more delicate in larger specimens. Oral lobes are only slightly longer than the body.

Size: To 16 cm TL.

Geographic Information

Habitat description: Midwater, including oxygen minimum layer.

Published depth range: 300 - 1012 m

Ocean range (global): Canada to California, and Japan.

Additional Information

Color: Variable from transparent to purple, with amber and red most common.

Monterey Bay Aquarium: https://www.montereybayaquarium.org/animals/animals-a-to-z/bloodybelly-comb-jelly

Looks like: Bathyctena chuni, Beroe abyssicola, Bathocyroe paragaster, Bathocyroe fosteri.

References

Encyclopedia of Life

Tree of Life

World Register of Marine Species

National Center for Biotechnology Information

Harbison, G.R., G.I. Matsumoto, and B.H. Robison (2001). Lampocteis cruentiventer gen. nov., sp. nov.: A new mesopelagic lobate ctenophore, representing the type of a new family (class Tentaculata, order Lobata, family Lampoctenidae, fam. nov.). Bulletin of Marine Science, 68: 299-311.

Lindsay, D.J. (2006). A checklist of midwater cnidarians and ctenophores from Sagami Bay—species sampled during submersible surveys from 1993-2004. Bulletin of the Plankton Society of Japan, 53(2): 104-110.

Lindsay, D.J. and J.C. Hunt (2005). Biodiversity in midwater cnidarians and ctenophores: submersible-based results from deep-water bays in the Japan Sea and north-western Pacific. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, 85: 503-517.