Category: Invertebrate
Phylum: Ctenophora
Class: Tentaculata
Family: Pleurobrachiidae

Other Names:
Jelly, Sea Gooseberry

Notes
Among the most delicate and fragile animals on the planet. Though combjellies look a lot like jellyfishes, they can be distinguished from the latter by the external bands of short comb-like structures which run from the top to the bottom of the animal. These combs have row upon row of tiny hairs called cilia that beat propelling the jelly forward.
NZ combjellies have been studied very little and many more species may be undiscovered, especially in the Deep Sea.

References
Deep New Zealand: Batson P