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Class: Tentaculata
Order: Cestida
Family: Cestidae Venus' girdles

Genus: Cestum

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Patrão de Oliveira, Otto Müller

Cosmopolitan. Warm tempe
Max. Length 150 cm TL
Cestum venerisLesueur, 1813

Photo by Patrão de Oliveira, Otto Müller
 
Cestum veneris
[Venus girdle]


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