Jellyfish

Jellyfish , Medusozoa. The Jellyfish is shaped like a moon with white color, but when you look at it from the top you can see purple, orange, and pink shaped lobe. It kind of look like a mushroom so people sometimes call it the mushroom Jellyfish it has clear creamy white bell with some reddish brown coloration at the bell margin. The Domain is Eukaryote and the kingdom is Animalia. Phylum is Cnidaria and the class is Scyphozoa. Order is Semaeostomeae and the family is Ulmaridae. Genus is Aurelia and species is Aurelia Aurita. The Jellyfish can live in any ocean over 2,000 species they still found plenty of locations they can survive in. Some can live in cold water and some can live in warm water. Some fun facts about this fish is that It looks like an umbrella another fact is that Jellyfish live in fresh water too and one more fact was that Jellyfish don't have brain. The Jellyfish radial symmetry. A structural adaptation is that Jellyfish looks like an umbrella and some people call it Jellyfish Umbrella.  A behavioral Adaptation is that Jellyfish defend themselves by stinging other organisms. A functional Adaptation is that when they want to eat they use their tentacles to bring food to their mouth and whatever they bring they eat it. They eat plants, copepods, fish eggs and other small fish called larvae. Jellyfishes are heterotrophs which means they eat other meats or plants. Jellyfishes are ectothermic which means they are cold blooded.The sea star is also ectothermic which means it is cold blooded. I hope you learned about Jellyfishes!!