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Definition of Cestidae
1. Noun. Coextensive with the order Cestida; ctenophores having a greatly flattened and elongated body.
Generic synonyms: Ctenophore Family
Group relationships: Cestida, Order Cestida
Member holonyms: Cestum, Genus Cestum
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cestidae
Literary usage of Cestidae
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Forms of Animal Life: A Manual of Comparative Anatomy : with Descriptions of by George Rolleston, William Hatchett Jackson (1888)
"The Ctenophora are transparent, pelagic, and are widely distributed. The Cestidae,
however, do not occur in the northern and temperate seas. ..."
2. A Treatise on Zoology by Edwin Ray Lankester (1900)
"Only in the much modified family of the Cestidae is the ciliary action supplemented
by sinuous movements of the elongated, band-like body. ..."
3. The Cambridge Natural History by Arthur Everett Shipley, Sidney Frederic Harmer (1906)
"Cestidae.—This is the only family of the order. Cestus veneris, the Venus's girdle
of the Mediterranean Sea, is also found in the Atlantic Ocean, ..."
4. Evolution by Atrophy in Biology and Sociology by Jean Demoor, Jean Massart, Emile Vandervelde (1899)
"By referring to the Cestidae, which are ribbon-like in shape, it will be seen
that by means of compression the body sj . C, short rows of swimming ..."
5. Ocean World ...: A Description of the Sea & Its Living Inhabitants by Louis Figuier (1869)
"... form a aert of connecting link between the Seroes and the Cestidae. Their bodies
are smooth and regular, vertically- elongated, compressed on one side ..."
6. A Manual of Zoology by Henri Milne-Edwards (1856)
"... which resemble small balloons; the cestidae, which have the form of a long
gelatinous ribbon; ..."
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