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Bolinopsis infundibulum, a lobate ctenophore, is known to occur from the arctic to the Mediterranean in European waters, and from the arctic to the Gulf of Maine in North American waters1–3. Full taxonomic details are given by Chun1 and Krumbach2.
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NAGABHUSHANAM, A. Feeding of a Ctenophore, Bolinopsis Infundibulum (O. F. Müller). Nature 184, 829 (1959). https://doi.org/10.1038/184829a0
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