Description
"The most singular of the Callianiridae is the Venus' Girdle, Celestum Veneris, which inhabits the Mediterranean, and which at first sight would be taken for any thing rather than a near relation of the globular Cydippe. In this curious creature the sides of the body are produced into a long ribbon, which sometimes attains the length of four or five feet; the mouth and digestive organs being, however, confined to their original position in the middle of he body." — Goodrich, 1859
