Definition of Cnidosacs. Meaning of Cnidosacs. Synonyms of Cnidosacs

- Individuals in this species can be dangerous for humans to handle; the cnidosacs of G. atlanticus often contain particularly powerful venomous stinging...
- gland, which may extend into the cerate and often has tips that contain cnidosacs (stinging cells absorbed from prey species and then used by the nudibranch)...
- against ****ure prey. The nematocysts are collected in specialized sacs (cnidosacs) at the tip of the animal's cerata. Because G. atlanticus concentrates...
- cells or nematocysts are p****ed unharmed through the digestive system to cnidosacs at the tips of the cerata. Here the nematocysts mature and are then used...
- distinguished from other nudibranchs by their possession of cerata containing cnidosacs. Superfamily Flabellinoidea (= Pleuroprocta) Bergh, 1889 Family Apataidae...
- this stage additional pairs of cerata appear and on their tip the filled cnidosacs can be detected for the first time. As development proceeds, body elongation...
- the genus Phyllodesmium but in Phyllodesmium there are no functional cnidosacs, possibly because the cnidae of soft corals are not useful in defence...
- large, broad and quite flat cerata. In these nudibranchs the cerata lack cnidosacs. The most common D. albolineata is translucent with opalescent white outlining...
- family Trinchesiidae which feed on hydroids. Adult Phestilla have no cnidosacs. This genus has been investigated using DNA phylogeny and undescribed...
- organisms store nematocysts of digested prey at the tips of their cerata. Cnidosac, the sac in which an aeolid nudibranch stores the cnidocytes from its prey...