Bathocyroe+fosteri

=__**//Bathocyroe fosteri//**__=


 * Sctientific Name:** //Bathocyroe fosteri//


 * Class:** T entaculata


 * Phlya:**Ctenophora
 * Location:** Mid-Atlantic Ridge
 * Size:** 2 inches
 * Habitat:** depths of up to three kilometers and fixed primarily by the ocean currents.

Living Requirements: Area of plankton

Life Cycle: Ctenophora reproduce sexually, Self-fertilization is somewhat rare and is known only to appear in the genus of //Mnemiopsis//. A single species, //Tjalfiella tristoma//, is viviparous; that is, the young grow in a womb.

After the fertilized eggs have divided twice, the ctenophore's later body symmetry has already been set. They develop over a free-floating //cydippea// state, which looks very similar between all ctenophora and sometimes is labeled as a larva, although usually in reality it already represents a miniature version of what the creature will grow up to be. Among some extremely specialized groups, such as platyctenides, the //cydippea// and adult forms do, however, take separate ecological niches, so that the 'larva' label is more appropriate.


 * Male and Female Differences:** None.


 * Endangered:** None.

Facts:
 * If half of the creature is destroyed, often the remaining half can rebuild itself.
 * Do not contain stinging cells.

Zookeeper Heath McGregor info: [] pictures: [] Video: []