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Scyphozoa
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Kingdom: animal Phylum: Cnidaria
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4 orders 2 suborders 24 families 11 subfamilies 71 genera over 220 species
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Commonly Jellyfish most live in shallow coastal waters
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Eat mostly fish They sting there prey with stinging cells Stingers enable there prey
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Been around sense 500 million years
They do not hunt there food swim into there stingers
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Radial symmetry Some can be hurtful to humans but most are not harmful Not endangered
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There are two body types Polyp and Medusa
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Polyp is stationary Do not swim Ex: coral Medusa is not stationary Swim Ex: jelly fish
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http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~ghale/pdf /scyphozoa.pdf
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