comb jelly

kampamaneetti A jelly-like marine animal of the phylum Ctenophora; a ctenophore.
1870, w:William Dallas|William Dallas, translation of w:Ernst Haeckel|Ernst Haeckel, “On the Organization of Sponges, and their Relationship to the Corals”, The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, fourth series, volume 5, http://books.google.com/books?id=9zcVAAAAYAAJ&dq=comb-jellies&pg=PA7 page 7:

Comb-jellies (Ctenophoræ).

Ctenophora, the “comb jellies.”

After contacting the surface of a comb jelly, a larva is often moved about by the comb plates and cilia of the host, but eventually it may stick at a comparatively undisturbed spot.

Have you ever met a comb jelly, or ctenophore?

Roberts catalogues the other man-made threats to life in the sea: the introduction of alien species by means of ballast water, such as the warty comb jellies that took over the Black Sea ....