Lyrocteis is a genus of benthic comb jellies. It is the only genus in the monotypic family Lyroctenidae.
GENUS
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Lyrocteis is a genus of benthic comb jellies. It is the only genus in the monotypic family Lyroctenidae.
==Morphology== The individuals are rather large benthic ctenophores (up to 15 cm) in the shape of a lyre. They have a basal body and two curved outgrowths, from which the fishing filaments emanate, which they use to capture their planktonic food.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).