Comb Jellyfish Ctenophores Although known as comb jellies and endowed with delicate gelatinous tissue like cnidarian jellies, ctenophores are only very distantly related to hydromedusae and scyphomedusae.  Like the cnidarians, they survive quite well without the benefits of teeth and hard skeletal parts.  Unlike the true jellies (cnidarians), comb jellies lack stinging nematocysts and have developed other strategies, such as sticky tentacles and oral lobes to capture prey. This picture was taken at the the caves loch Long.

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Picture by John Nicolson