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Aulacoctena

Cladus: Eukaryota
Supergroup: Opisthokonta
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: incertae sedis
Phylum: Ctenophora
Classis: Tentaculata
Subclassis: Typhlocoela
Ordo: Cydippida
Familia: Aulacoctenidae
Genus: Aulacoctena
Species: A. acuminata

Name

Aulacoctena Mortensen, 1932

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Aulacoctena sp., a large softball-sized cydippid ctenophore from the deep waters of the Arctic Ocean. Alaska, Beaufort Sea, North of Point Barrow.

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