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Jellyfish have drifted along on ocean currents for millions of years,
even before dinosaurs lived on the Earth. The jellylike creatures
pulse along on ocean currents and are abundant in cold and warm
ocean water, in deep water, and along coastlines. But despite their
name, jellyfish aren't actually fish—they're invertebrates, or animals
with no backbones.
Jellyfish are animals of the phylum Cnidaria. They are a monophyletic
clade, the Medusozoa. Most of them live in the oceans, in salt water,
where they eat small sea animals like plankton and little fish, and
float in the sea. Only a few jellyfish live in fresh water.
.They have soft bodies and long, stinging, venomous tentacles that they use to
catch their prey, usually small plankton animals or small crustaceans or tiny fish.
Some jellyfish hunt other jellyfish. Venom is injected by stinging cells called
nematocysts. A jellyfish is 97% water.
Most jellyfish have a bell-shaped body and long tentacles at the underside of the
body. Tentacles are long “arms” with special stinging cells called nematocysts.
They move by contracting their bodies, but they do not have much control over
where they go: most of the time, they drift with the water current. The largest
type of jellyfish is the Lion’s mane jellyfish, which has tentacles that can be as
long as 60 meters, but most jellyfish are much smaller.
Jellyfish have tiny stinging cells in their tentacles to stun or paralyze their
prey before they eat them. Inside their bell-shaped body is an opening that
is its mouth. They eat and discard waste from this opening.
As jellyfish squirt water from their mouths they are propelled forward.
Tentacles hang down from the smooth baglike body and sting their prey.
Jellyfish stings can be painful to humans and sometimes very dangerous.
But jellyfish don't purposely attack humans. Most stings occur when
people accidentally touch a jellyfish, but if the sting is from a dangerous
species, it can be deadly. Jellyfish digest their food very quickly. They
wouldn't be able to float if they had to carry a large, undigested meal
around.
They dine on fish, shrimp, crabs and tiny plants. Sea turtles relish
the taste of jellyfish. Some jellyfish are clear, but others are in
vibrant colors such as pink, yellow, blue, and purple, and often are
luminescent. The Chinese have fished jellyfish for 1,700 years. They
are considered a delicacy and are used in Chinese medicine.
There are more than 2,000 different types of species of jellyfish that
have been found in the ocean so far. They are all unique and have
their purpose.
TYPE OF JELLYFISH
1. BOX JELLYFISH !
The Box Jellyfish is a highly advanced species. Native
to the shallow waters of Northern Australia and the
Indo-Pacific region, the Box is considered to be one of
the most poisonous sea creatures.
The sting is extremely painful and lethal, and any
surviving victims will sustain extensive scarring. Its
average lifespan is one year.
2. PINK COMB JELLY !
In the lower Chesapeake Bay area during the late
summer and fall, Pink Comb jellies swim at the
surface of shallow and deep waters.
barrel-shaped pink comb jelly glide in water
These barrel-shaped sea creatures are the size of a
golf ball and consist of combs that produce colorful
iridescent bands as they glide in the water.
Instead of stinging, their tentacles have colloblasts
that produce a sticky, glue-like substance to catch
their prey.
They have both male and female organs, meaning they
can fertilize themselves. The four-inch-long pink to
brownish transparent Comb Jelly feeds on sea
walnuts, planktonic type organisms, and fish larvae.
3. AURELIE AURITA !
(also called the common jellyfish, moon jellyfish,
moon jelly or saucer jelly) is a species of the family
Ulmaridae. All species in the genus are very similar,
and it is difficult to identify Aurelia medusae without
genetic sampling. most of what follows applies
equally to all species of the genus. It feeds by
collecting medusae, plankton, and mollusks with its
tentacles, and bringing them into its body for
digestion. It is capable of only limited motion, and
drifts with the current, even when swimming.
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