Pleurobrachia is a common genus of Ctenophora(an exclusively marine phylum). Along with the genus Hormiphora,[1] it generally has the common name sea gooseberry. It contains the following species:[2]
Pleurobrachia arctica Wagner, 1885
Pleurobrachia australis (Benham, 1907)
Pleurobrachia bachei L. Agassiz, 1860
Pleurobrachia brunnea Mayer, 1912
Pleurobrachia dimidiata Eschscholtz, 1829
Pleurobrachia globosa Moser
Pleurobrachia pigmentata Moser, 1903
Pleurobrachia pileus (Müller, 1776)
Pleurobrachia rhododactyla L. Agassiz, 1860
Pleurobrachia rhodopis Chun, 1880
Pleurobrachia striata Moser
^Britannica, sea gooseberry
^WoRMS (2010). "Pleurobrachia Fleming, 1822". World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved May 14, 2010.
Pleurobrachia pileus is a species of comb jelly, commonly known as a sea gooseberry. It is found in open water in the northern Atlantic Ocean, the North...
Pleurobrachia bachei is a member of the phylum Ctenophora and is commonly referred to as the Pacific sea gooseberry. These comb jellies are often mistaken...
coastal genera – Pleurobrachia, Beroe and Mnemiopsis. At least two textbooks base their descriptions of ctenophores on the cydippid Pleurobrachia. Since the...
PMID 30988357. Polymorphism within the mitochondrial genome of the ctenophore, Pleurobrachia bachei and its ongoing rapid evolution - bioRxiv Yahalomi D, Atkinson...
1980s, where only one species of comb jelly, the small sea gooseberry Pleurobrachia pileus occurred until then. The most likely cause of its introduction...
more cylindrical or egg-shaped; the common coastal "sea gooseberry," Pleurobrachia, has an egg-shaped body with the mouth at the narrow end. From opposite...
smaller. This resulted in the species being argued to be in the genus Pleurobrachia, however according to WORMS, it stays in Euplokamis. The species occurs...
It shares the common name sea gooseberry with species of the genus Pleurobrachia. Despite living for hundreds of millions of years in marine environments...
comb jellies, mainly sea gooseberries such as Hormiphora plumosa and Pleurobrachia pileus. Under optimal conditions, Beroe ovata can eat as much as four...
D. Bache of 1871 and its successor in 1901. The cydippid ctenophore Pleurobrachia bachei A. Agassiz, 1860 was named for him; it was discovered in 1859...
on comparison with the similar-looking modern sea gooseberry genus, Pleurobrachia, from the North Sea. The specimen does show the statocyst, however....
predator, feeding almost exclusively on other comb jellies, such as Pleurobrachia pileus. It swims rapidly with its mouth open wide, drawing prey into...
setosa. It is itself consumed by larger organisms such as the comb jelly Pleurobrachia pileus. The abundance in any area of P. setosa and other mezo-zooplankton...
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