Predatory tunicate

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kingdom Animalia The predatory tunicate is a species of tunicate which lives anchored along the deep sea canyon walls and seafloor, waiting for tiny animals to drift or swim into its hood-shaped mouth. Looking something like a cross between a jellyfish and a Venus Flytrap, its mouthlike hood is quick to close when a small animal drifts inside. Once the predatory tunicate catches a meal, it keeps its trap shut until it is ready to eat again.

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phylum Chordata
Subphylum Tunicata
class Ascidiacea
order Phlebobranchia
family Octacnemidae
genus Megalodicopia
species M. hians