Scyphozoa

Kingdom: animal

Phylum: Cnidaria

4 orders

2 suborders

24 families

11 subfamilies

71 genera

over 220 species

Commonly Jellyfish

most live in shallow coastal waters

Eat mostly fish

They sting there prey with stinging cells

Stingers enable there prey

Been around sense 500 million years

They do not hunt there food swim into there stingers

Radial symmetry

Some can be hurtful to humans but most are not harmful

Not endangered

There are two body types Polyp and Medusa

Polyp is stationary

Do not swim

Ex: coral

• Medusa is not stationary SwimEx: jelly fish

http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~ghale/pdf/scyphozoa.pdf

http://homepages.abdn.ac.uk/nathist.museum/classify/animalia/porifera/sclerospongiae/index.htm

http://classes.seattleu.edu/biology/biol235/hodin/spongesandhemichordates/sponge2-5.html

http://www.marinespecies.org/porifera/porifera.php?p=taxdetails&id=196313

http://classes.seattleu.edu/biology/biol235/hodin/spongesandhemichordates/sponge2-5.html

http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/cnidaria/scyphozoa.html