Plate XIV. 

 The small jellyfish Goiiioiicniiis feeding on a pipe fish. 



Photograph by Lennart Nilsson (fi-om Life in the Sea) 



tentacles. They feed on other creatures in the plankton, especially young 

 fish. 



The other common ctenophore is Beroc aicutnis (Fig. 17; 7) which is 

 larger and flabbier than the gooseberry, and thimble shaped; as it may be 

 3 or 4 inches long it is big enough to be seen from the deck of a ship if the 

 sea surface is quite calm. It is oceanic and rarely stranded in a recognizable 

 form, belonging essentially to the arctic and boreal regions where it is 

 abundant from Greenland to Spitzbergen, extending southwards to the 

 North Sea, west Baltic and to the west of the British Isles. It is often rather 

 pink in colour, the pinkness increasing with colder conditions. Unlike the 

 gooseberry, Bcroc has no retractile tentacles but the mouth is large — the 



