Author:
Jan Scholten
Book:
Qjurious
Type:
Info
Chapter:
4-220.00.00
Tentaculata
Zoology: pair of long, feathery, contractile tentacles, retracting into specialised ciliated sheaths, sometimes reduced to smaller, secondary tentacles; tentacles have colloblasts, which are sticky-tipped cells that trap small prey; Atlantic and Pacific coasts.