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In this article we will discuss about the structure of Beroe with the help of a diagram.
1. Commonly known as “Mitre jelly fish” and is found in groups or swarms throughout (cosmopolitan).
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2. Body thimble-shaped and laterally compressed with broad oral and narrow aboral end.
3. Tentacles and oral lobes are absent and mouth is a wide opening leading into stomodaeum (pharynx).
4. All along the body length run four pairs of meridional canals, which give off large number of branches on all sides to form a sort of complex network.
5. The meridional canals along with a pair of stomodaeal canals unite into a circular horizontal tube which runs around mouth.
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6. Swimming plates are well developed and run all along the body length.
7. In their upper halves the swimming plates are connected with gonads.
8. Development through a larva known as cydippid.
