If the prey of a cubozoan is still alive at this point,
this could be the last thing it sees. During feeding,
the pedalium
pushes the prey inside the bell of the medusa,
the manubrium (which is the tube that
connects the stomach on one end to the the
four-parted mouth on the other) reaches
out and finds the prey. The mouth then expands and engulfs the
prey.
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