Description. Body translucent, without dark spots in the inner side of the lobes. Body highly compressed in the tentacular plane (Fig. 2 A). Reduced tentacle bulbs present, along with tentacular canals. Lacking tentacles and warts. Substomodeal ctene rows with 35 – 37 ctene plates. Subtentacular ctene rows with 25 – 27 ctene plates, not reaching beyond the base of the lobes. Apical organ at the aboral extremity of the body (Fig. 2 D). Two prominent cup-like lobes. Meridional canals extending to the lobes, presenting conspicuous turns inside it (Fig. 2 D). Auricles arising at the base of the lobes, distally able to reach the mouth. Pharynx compressed in the tentacular plane, presenting a constriction in the middle part, forming a characteristic hourglass shape and opening in a broad mouth (Fig. 2 C, D). Gonads present along the substomodeal meridional canals orally beyond the end of the ctene rows.
Sumber: Ctenophores from the Oaxaca coast, including a checklist of species from the Pacific coast of Mexico