replaced. Each cnidocyte contains an organelle called a cnida, cnidocyst, nematocyst, ptychocyst or spirocyst. This organelle consists of a bulb-shaped capsule...

A nematocyst is a subcellular structure or organelle containing extrusive filaments found in two families of athecate dinoflagellates (a group of unicellular...

cnidocysts (also called nematocysts). The toxins in their nematocysts are effective against their prey. While cnidarians all possess nematocysts, in some species...

called cnidocytes. Cnidocytes contain specialized structures called nematocysts, which look like miniature light bulbs with a coiled thread inside. At...

siphonophore species exhibit nematocyst stinging capsules on branches of their tentacles called tentilla. The nematocysts are arranged in dense batteries...

are known: Nematocysts inject venom into prey, and usually have barbs to keep them embedded in the victims. Most species have nematocysts. Spirocysts...

war and other venomous siphonophores. This sea slug stores stinging nematocysts from the siphonophores within its own tissues as defence against predators...

revealed that the myotoxicity caused by the presence of Nemopilema nomurai nematocyst venom (NnNV) in the body, which leads to Oedematogenic effects on the...

are armed with nematocysts, a type of specialized stinging cell. Contact with a jellyfish tentacle can trigger millions of nematocysts to pierce the skin...

hydrozoids can store the hydrozoids' nematocysts (stinging cells) in the dorsal body wall, the cerata. These stolen nematocysts, called kleptocnidae, wander through...

contain stinging nematocysts, capsule-like organelles capable of everting suddenly, giving the phylum Cnidaria its name. Each nematocyst contains a small...

jellyfish. When disrupted, the cannonball secretes a mucus out of its nematocyst that contains a toxin. The toxin harms small fish in the immediate area...

conditioning" in which they consume the nematocyst from their prey in response for predators in the same environment. Nematocysts are found in the epidermal mucus...

containing nematocysts, a harpoon-shaped microscopic mechanism that injects venom into the victim. Many different kinds of nematocysts are found in...

feeding pattern in the pelagic zone, and was documented to have rows of nematocysts. Few species have been well-defined within the genus otherwise. Apolemia...

jellyfish stings, both numbing the affected area and preventing further nematocyst discharge. For gastritis, drinking a viscous lidocaine formulation may...

color can warn other animals of the sea slug's toxic stinging cells (nematocysts) or offensive taste. Like all gastropods, they have small, razor-sharp...

nematocysts, preventing them from opening and releasing venom. A 2014 study demonstrated in vitro that while vinegar deactivates unfired nematocysts,...

a fibrous material, which is made from secreted mucus and threads of nematocyst-like organelles, known as ptychocysts. The basic body form of an anthozoan...

Myxospores consist of several cells, which are transformed to shell valves, nematocyst-like polar capsules with coiled extrudible polar filaments and amoeboid...

Ulrike; Özbek Suat; Holstein Thomas W (2006). "Nanosecond-scale kinetics of nematocyst discharge". Current Biology. 16 (9): R316–R318. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2006...

thought to be one of the earliest predators, catching small prey with its nematocysts as modern cnidarians do. Some palaeontologists have suggested that animals...

cells called nematocysts. These cells carry venom which they rapidly release in response to contact with another organism. A dormant nematocyst discharges...

Polykrikos are characterized by a sophisticated ballistic apparatus, named the nematocyst-taeniocyst complex, which allows species to prey on a variety of organisms...

Each tentacle bears tiny, coiled, thread-like structures called nematocysts. Nematocysts trigger and inject venom on contact, stinging, paralyzing, and...

tentacles (compared with up to fifteen tentacles in Chironex fleckeri). The nematocyst threads are lavender. The manubrium is cross-shaped with lancet-shaped...

larvae of Aurelia have nematocysts to capture prey and to protect themselves from predators. The food is caught with its nematocyst-laden tentacles, tied...

to 30 mm wide. The exumbrella has four interradial and four perradial nematocyst tracks that are short in length. It has a well-developed velum. Normally...

crustaceans and fish, which they capture using stinging cells called nematocysts. The nematocysts are located throughout the tentacles that radiate downward from...

one of the earliest predatory animals, catching small prey with its nematocysts as modern cnidarians do. The fossil record demonstrates a long history...