Mertensia+ovum

=Mertensia Ovum= ====Mertensia Ovums are common near-surface ctenophores of the Arctic and its marginal seas. An adult Mertensia Ovum can grow up to 10 cm. It is transparent, red/pink color along the comb rows and the body is shaped oblong to spherical slightly flattened. It has tentacles with number long side branches (tentilla) and the deployed tentacles are 10-20 times body length. It eats copepods and small crustaceans trapped on sticky tentacles.====