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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