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- small sticky hairs on the thread. Ptychocysts are not used for prey capture — instead the threads of discharged ptychocysts are used for building protective...
- cnidocyte contains an organelle called a cnida, cnidocyst, nematocyst, ptychocyst or spirocyst. This organelle consists of a bulb-shaped capsule containing...
- from secreted mucus and threads of nematocyst-like organelles, known as ptychocysts. The basic body form of an anthozoan is the polyp. This consists of a...
- from secreted mucus and threads of nematocyst-like organelles known as ptychocysts. Within the tubes of these ceriantharians, more than one polyp is present...
- are of a single type, there being nematocysts but no spirocysts or ptychocysts. In contrast, the anthozoan life cycle involves a planula larva which...