Jellyfish
Total questions 3800
What do jellyfish eat?
All jellyfishes are carnivores. Most jellyfish are passive drifters that feed on living or dead preys: small fish, eggs,...
Popularity: 51 • Tools: Recategorize
How do jellyfish get oxygen?
Jellyfishes get oxygen by diffusion through all the surface of their body.
Popularity: 33 • Tools: Recategorize
What are five characteristics of a jellyfish?
nematocysts-stinging cells located inside the cnidoblast and is used for defense and feeding on prey. carnivores- passive...
Popularity: 20 • Tools: Recategorize
How do jellyfish eat?
Most jellyfish are drifters that feed on living or dead prey: small fish, eggs, zooplankton and other invertebrates that become...
Popularity: 18 • Tools: Recategorize
Do jellyfish have tissues?
The bodies of jellyfish are made up of a variety of tissue types. The outside of the animal is covered in a transparent skin. The...
Popularity: 17 • Tools: Recategorize
How do jellyfish eat and eliminate wastes?
Jellyfish float along and wait until something floats by that gets caught up in their tentacles. Then their stingers stun the...
Popularity: 17 • Tools: Recategorize
Do jellyfishes have brains?
No, they haven't. No; they haven't a solid central brain in the sense that other animals do- but they do have a simple nervous...
Popularity: 17 • Tools: Recategorize
How do jellyfish excrete?
Jellyfish excrete from their internal cavity, the coelenteron; some of them also use waste products to feed autothroph...
Popularity: 16 • Tools: Recategorize
What are the special behaviors of jellyfish?
Behaviors: * Most jellyfish sting their prey to catch them. * Moest of them eat by bringing the prey from their tentacles to...
Popularity: 15 • Tools: Recategorize
How do jellyfish breath?
Jellyfishes breath by gas diffusion through all the surface of their body.
Popularity: 15 • Tools: Recategorize
What types of jellyfish are in miami?
The most common type of jelly fish found on the coasts of Miami are Aurelia Aurita. Also called the jelly, moon jelly fish, moon...
Popularity: 15 • Tools: Recategorize
What is an average lifespan of jellyfish?
The average lifespan of a jellyfish is about six to eight months.
Popularity: 15 • Tools: Recategorize
How does a jellyfish survive when it does not have a brain or heart?
how does a jellyfish live? A jellyfish is made up of mostly of water. 95% of water to be exact. it has no blood or heart I...
Popularity: 14 • Tools: Recategorize
Are jellyfish deadly to humans?
Yes; they can be.
Popularity: 14 • Tools: Recategorize
What are some adaptations of a jellyfish?
Jellyfishes are made up of 99% water to float; they have stinging cells; they are free swimming, unlike polyps. and the larger...
Popularity: 14 • Tools: Recategorize
Are jellyfish herbivores?
No; all jellyfishes are carnivore.
Popularity: 13 • Tools: Recategorize
How do jellyfish reproduce?
Jellyfish have sexual reproduction. There are 4 different stages. The male jellyfish releases sperms into the water and the...
Popularity: 13 • Tools: Recategorize
Are jellyfish poisonous?
Yes; however many of them are not poisonous for primates, but inoculate allergens, which can kill by anaphylactic shock.
Popularity: 13 • Tools: Recategorize
How is a llama similar to a jellyfish?
Jellyfish and llamas are both pluricellular, eucaryotic, heterotroph living organism belonging to Kingdom Animalia, and both can...
Popularity: 12 • Tools: Recategorize
How does a jellyfish protect itself?
Jellyfish protect theirselves by stinging predators with their tentacles or with their oral arms. Jellyfish have cells called...
Popularity: 12 • Tools: Recategorize
What are the natural predators of jellyfish?
Ocean sunfish and sea turtles (such as Leatherback Turtles) are predators of jellyfish.
Popularity: 12 • Tools: Recategorize
What is the scientific name of a jellyfish?
A jellyfish is the medusoid stadium of animals belonging to phyum Cnidaria, subphylum Medusozoa, which include: class: Scyphozoa...
Popularity: 12 • Tools: Recategorize
What is the habitat of a jellyfish?
Jellyfish live all around the ocean. They can live in shallow and also deep ocean.
Popularity: 12 • Tools: Recategorize
Are box jellyfish endangered?
no there are still very many out there in the ocean
Popularity: 12 • Tools: Recategorize
Where do jellyfish live?
Jellyfishes live in oceans and seas of all around the world, in shallow or deep waters and in some rivers and lakes too. Most...
Popularity: 11 • Tools: Recategorize
Are jellyfishes carnivores?
Yes, all of them are.
Popularity: 11 • Tools: Recategorize
Can jellyfish form buds?
Yes; some hydrozoan jellyfishes can reproduce asexually by gemmation (with buds) and by direct scission.
Popularity: 11 • Tools: Recategorize
Where can you get a pet jelly fish in brisbane?
jelly fish and another poisenus animal Well i know you wanted to know where but heres some new advise , DONT GET A JELLY FISH!...
Popularity: 11 • Tools: Recategorize
Can jellyfish see?
"Yes, jellyfishes have up to 32 eyes called ocelli, similar to vertebrate eyes, and can see shapes, distances and colours. Some...
Popularity: 11 • Tools: Recategorize
What is the biggest jellyfish?
Cyanea capillata (the lion's mane jellyfish) is said to be the biggest jellyfish known, reaching 35 meters of lenght and 2 metres...
Popularity: 11 • Tools: Recategorize
Do jellyfish live in freshwater?
Yes; jellyfishes live in freshwater, like some Limnomedusae.
Popularity: 11 • Tools: Recategorize
Does a jelly fish eat seaweed?
No, it eats crustaceans such as crabs, lobsters & shrimp. CORRECT ANSWER: It eats fish that gets caught in its tentacles....
Popularity: 10 • Tools: Recategorize
Can you get a picture of a jellyfish?
Yes! See this site for lots & lots of phtos of jellyfish. http://www.imagequest3d.com/photos/jellyfish/index.htm
Popularity: 10 • Tools: Recategorize
Why isn't a jellyfish a fish?
Jellifish and fish are animals evolved from different ancestors. While jellifish belong to phylum Cnidaria and have a radial...
Popularity: 10 • Tools: Recategorize
What is a bluebottle jellyfish?
Bluebottle jellyfish, or portuguese man o'war is not a jellyfish, but a colony of many siphonophora polyps. Each polyp is a...
Popularity: 10 • Tools: Recategorize
Where do jellyfish live in the ocean?
everywhere, mostly in sea water but sometimes in lakes and rivers. you get them in seas and oceans (deep or shallow) but the...
Popularity: 10 • Tools: Recategorize
What is a scientific name for jellyfish?
Name: JellyfishScientific name: Cnidaria Scyphozoa AureliaLocation: Along both coasts of North AmericaHabitat: Tropical to...
Popularity: 10 • Tools: Recategorize
What do sea nettles eat?
Sea Nettles eat small crustaceans, comb jellies, and fish eggs and larvae.
Popularity: 10 • Tools: Recategorize
How many eyes does a jellyfish have?
Some jellyfishes haven't any, but most of them have eyes called ocelli; jellyfish of the class Cubozoa (box jelly) have 24...
Popularity: 10 • Tools: Recategorize
What is the order of jellyfish?
Jellyfish refers to the medusoid stadium of animals belonging to different classes and orders of the Phylum Cnidaria.
Popularity: 10 • Tools: Recategorize
What has 12 eyes eight legs and lives at the bottom of the sea?
You got me on this one.is it a sea spider?
Popularity: 10 • Tools: Recategorize
Which is the first species of jellyfish found?
The first jellyfish was called the Metazoan.
Popularity: 9 • Tools: Recategorize
Can jellyfish sting each other?
Stingin cells are activated only if the jellyfish touch and recognize some specific organic compounds; in this way, they don't...
Popularity: 9 • Tools: Recategorize
How many kinds of jellyfish are there?
There are more than 350 different species of jellyfishes known, and scientists exstimate there may be 2,000; however they can be...
Popularity: 9 • Tools: Recategorize
Can ocean jellyfish live in fresh water lakes?
No, they cannot. However you can find freshwater jellyfish in some countries e.g. Thailand
Popularity: 9 • Tools: Recategorize
What is a jellyfish?
A sea creature with a body that is soft and quivering like jelly and has trailing tentacles. the tenticals sting/poisan you some...
Popularity: 9 • Tools: Recategorize
To what phylum do sponges belong?
Phylum 'Porifera' which means Pore-bearing.
Popularity: 9 • Tools: Recategorize
Do jellyfish carry their eggs under a 'skirt'?
jellyfish dont have eggs per ce. they are part of the life cycle of a polip, a spounge. google them
Popularity: 9 • Tools: Recategorize
What are the natural predators of the jelly fish?
Ocean sunfish and Leatherback turtles are two of the most prevalent jellyfish predators. And no, strangely enough, they do not...
Popularity: 9 • Tools: Recategorize
What is a young jellyfish called?
A sexually immature jellyfish is called an ephyra.
Popularity: 9 • Tools: Recategorize
What kind of jellyfish can sting you?
All kinds of jellyfishes can sting you, but dangerous ones are Semaeostomeae, Coronatae and Cubozoa.
Popularity: 9 • Tools: Recategorize
How many years do crystal jellyfish live?
Crystal Jellyfish live from 4 to 6 months.
Popularity: 9 • Tools: Recategorize
Do jelly fish have a circulatory system?
no they use diffusion
Popularity: 9 • Tools: Recategorize
What type of symmetry does a jellyfish have?
Tetraradial simmetry (has 4 simmetry planes).
Popularity: 9 • Tools: Recategorize
How is a jellyfish alive when it has no heart brain blood etc?
Because it has cells that help it live
Popularity: 9 • Tools: Recategorize
What animals feed on living plants and animals?
Animals that eat plants and meat are called omnivores!
Popularity: 9 • Tools: Recategorize
Are man of wars jellyfish?
No; portuguese man o'war, or bluebottle jellyfish in not a jellyfish but a colony of many polyps. Each polyp is a single animal...
Popularity: 8 • Tools: Recategorize
What eats a jelly fish?
Turtles eat jelly fish.
Popularity: 8 • Tools: Recategorize
How does the cardiovascular system of a jellyfish work?
easy. it doesn't have one.
Popularity: 8 • Tools: Recategorize
How do jellyfish get oxygen out of their environment for respiration?
Its because their skin is so thin on the body and tenticles that the oxygen flows through their body and goes through to its...
Popularity: 8 • Tools: Recategorize
How do you get rid of jellyfish?
You can not get rid of jellyfish, they have been in the ocean forever. They are here to stay.
Popularity: 8 • Tools: Recategorize
Are jellyfish endangered?
Most of them are not endangered but some are, like the freshwater Craspedacusta sowerbyi Lankester.
Popularity: 8 • Tools: Recategorize
How do Humans use Jelly Fish?
I've eaten jellyfish. It's crunchy like softened cartilage. I had it in a salad and it was great.
Popularity: 8 • Tools: Recategorize
What have scientists found out about jellyfish?
Jellyfish (and all cnidarians) stinging mechanism is the fastest cellular process in nature: cnidae, stinging (or sticking)...
Popularity: 8 • Tools: Recategorize
What is a common name for jellyfish?
Jellyfish is already a common name.
Popularity: 8 • Tools: Recategorize
How do jellyfish mate?
Only some cubozoan jellyfishes mate, having a sort of copulation with some physical contact, however without any true joint or...
Popularity: 8 • Tools: Recategorize
What is the most poisonous jellyfish?
The most poisonous species of jellyfishes are said to be Chironex fleckeri and Carukia barnesi, both Cubozoa.
Popularity: 8 • Tools: Recategorize
What is the climate of the jellyfish?
Jellyfish live floating in the oceans of Earth and occur at all latitudes. There is no specific climate to which they are...
Popularity: 8 • Tools: Recategorize
How much do moon jellyfish weigh?
13units
Popularity: 8 • Tools: Recategorize
What kind of animals eat jellyfish?
Sea turtles eat Jellyfish.
Popularity: 7 • Tools: Recategorize
Do jellyfish have any senses other than sight to help them determine what is around them?
Though jellyfish do not have sight, per se, many species can detect light and dark. Some swim away when exposed to a sudden...
Popularity: 7 • Tools: Recategorize
How does a jellyfish show fear?
Jellyfish don't experience any fear because they haven't got a brain.
Popularity: 7 • Tools: Recategorize
Are bluebottle jellyfish stings fatal?
The Portuguese Man O' War also known as the bluebottle jellyfish. stings usually cause excruciating pain, and have caused...
Popularity: 7 • Tools: Recategorize
How does a jellyfish adapt to its environment?
they live in the ocean and they eat small fish
Popularity: 7 • Tools: Recategorize
Give the classification of salmon tuna jellyfish goldfish and catfish according to its content at least three examples?
Popularity: 7 • Tools: Recategorize • Needs Answer
What is an adult jellyfish called?
An adult jellyfish is called a Jellyfish.
Popularity: 7 • Tools: Recategorize
What has the ocean done to protect Jellyfish?
NOTHING. a sponge that lives in a pineapple takes home and consumes them. haha dude thts hilarious. yes spongebob eats...
Popularity: 7 • Tools: Recategorize
What is the color of a jellyfish?
Jellyfishes are translucid, however some of them can have coloured parts with red, pink, blue, violet or yellow pigments or with...
Popularity: 7 • Tools: Recategorize
Do jellyfish sleep?
Maybe Like all animals, jellyfish spend time resting, but they don't "sleep" like we do. Some species will spend long periods...
Popularity: 7 • Tools: Recategorize
What is Stop-Sting Jellyfish Sting Treatment Kit?
Stop-Sting is a jellyfish sting treatment kit that has been used by medical professionals for years at a seaside medical clinic...
Popularity: 7 • Tools: Recategorize
How does a jellyfish hunt and gather its food?
Most jellyfish are passive drifters that feed on living or dead preys: small fish, eggs, zooplankton and other invertebrates that...
Popularity: 7 • Tools: Recategorize
What exactly does a jellyfish do to sting somebody?
Cnidocytes (stingin cells), located mostly along jellyfish tentacles, are activated only if their cnidocilium (a structure of the...
Popularity: 7 • Tools: Recategorize
Why do jellyfish have different colors?
Jellyfishes colours are dued to own pigments or microorganisms pigments living in symbiosis with them; pigments, usually, give...
Popularity: 7 • Tools: Recategorize
Where are the jellyfishes ocelli?
At the margin of the umbrella, sometimes enclosed inside a rhopalium (a multi-sensorial structure)
Popularity: 7 • Tools: Recategorize
What kind of poison does a Portuguese-Man-of-War jellyfish produce?
Portuguese man o'war (Physalia physalis) is not a jellyfish, however it produces a liquid mixture made up of three peptides: ...
Popularity: 6 • Tools: Recategorize
How do jellyfish live without brains?
Jellyfish nervous system is made up of two neural rings, an inner and an outer one, located in the margin of the umbrella.
Popularity: 6 • Tools: Recategorize
What is the deadliest jellyfish?
I'm not positive, but I think it's the Man-O-War. It is not a Man O War, it's the Box Jellyfish. Man O Wars could never kill a...
Popularity: 6 • Tools: Recategorize
Are moon jellyfish herbivores carnivores or omnivores?
it is a carnivore.
Popularity: 6 • Tools: Recategorize
What kills jellyfish?
Seaturtles, ctenophorans (comb jellies), anthozoans (corals) and other jellyfish feed on them.
Popularity: 6 • Tools: Recategorize
What is the least deadly jellyfish?
the least dangerous jellyfish is maybe jellyfish that live in freshwater
Popularity: 6 • Tools: Recategorize
Who are the jellyfish's enemies?
Lether back turtals and whales. i totally agree but i sunfish also eats a jellyfish.
Popularity: 6 • Tools: Recategorize
How do jellyfish catch prey?
Jellyfish have cells called cnidocytes, which contain nematocysts, and located on their tentacles, mainly. Whenever a prey comes...
Popularity: 6 • Tools: Recategorize
What is the biological name of jellyfish?
A jellyfish is the medusoid stadium of animals belonging to phyum Cnidaria, subphylum Medusozoa, which include: class: Scyphozoa...
Popularity: 6 • Tools: Recategorize
What is the scientific name of the box jellyfish?
The name "box jellyfish" refers to any jellyfish of the class Cubozoa. the Scientific name for a box jellyfish is Chironex...
Popularity: 6 • Tools: Recategorize
What are some habits of jellyfish?
i think this web link may help you http://danenet.wicip.org/mmsd-it/jellyfish.html
Popularity: 6 • Tools: Recategorize
Can people mutate with a jellyfish?
yes, you will become jellyfish man! or woman
Popularity: 6 • Tools: Recategorize
What taxonomy family is the jellyfish in?
Different species of jellyfish will fall under different taxonomic families. A true jellyfish is any animal within the class...
Popularity: 6 • Tools: Recategorize
Do jelly fish have ears?
Jellyfish lack basic sensory organs and brain, but their nervous systems generally allow them to perceive stimuli such as light...
Popularity: 6 • Tools: Recategorize
What is a kind of jellyfish?
A kind of jellyfishes is an artificial concept to recognize jellyfishes with same anatomy and echology.
Popularity: 6 • Tools: Recategorize
What are some facts about jellyfish?
Jellyfish fact: Jellyfish has been around for more than 650 million years which means that they outdate the dinosaurs and the...
Popularity: 6 • Tools: Recategorize
