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Jellyfish!!!!!



Upside-down Jellyfish Jellyfish
Jellyfish Compass Jellyfish

Characteristics

** All Syphozoans are transparent **

** About 200 species **

** They range in size from just a few inches to 30 feet or more **

** All Syphozoans are carnivores **

** Scyphozoans are active predators, they paralyze or kill their prey with the cynocytes on their tentacles **

** Most Scyphozoans reproduce sexually

** The name comes from Greek, "skyphos", meaning cup, and "zoia", meaning animal **

** Spend most of their time in the medusae stage of their life cycle **

*** Though most jellyfish are harmless to humans, some have neurotoxins strong enough to paralyze or kill a human ***

Moon Jellyfish Animation
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University of Berkeley Scyphozoan

Albion College Phylum Cnidaria

Baltimore Aquarium Jellyfish Drifters

Curator: Beth Jewell, beth.jewell@fcps.edu
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