The lobate ctenophores have two flattened lobes that reach below their mouths. Special cilia waving between the lobes generate a current to pull planktonic food between the lobes and into the jelly's mouth, allowing them to feed on plankton continuously. They also use colloblast-lined tentacles to catch food.

Are ctenophores filter feeders?

2C) has one of the most specialized diets known for ctenophores. Harbison et al. (1997) found them to be adapted for feeding on larvaceans, urochordates that filter-feed from inside mucus houses. The ctenophore has two simple tentacles with which it encounters prey.

How do Bloodybelly comb jelly eat?

Many of the deep-sea animals the bloody-belly comb jelly preys upon can bioluminesce, or create their own light. The translucent predator needs to conceal its stomach—or risk its most recent meal lighting it up from the inside out and alerting potential predators to its whereabouts.