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Olindias formosus (Flower hat Jellyfish) Monterey Bay Aquarium, CA
Genus species:
   Olindias formosus
Common name:
   Flower hat jelly
Order:
   Limnomedusae
Class:
   Hydrozoa
Subphylum:
   Medusozoa
Olindias formosus (Flower hat Jellyfish) Monterey Bay Aquarium, CA
Genus species:
   Olindias formosus
Common name:
   Flower hat jelly
Order:
   Limnomedusae
Class:
   Hydrozoa
Subphylum:
   Medusozoa
Olindias formosus (Flower hat Jellyfish) Monterey Bay Aquarium, CA
Genus species:
   Olindias formosus
Common name:
   Flower hat jelly
Order:
   Limnomedusae
Class:
   Hydrozoa
Subphylum:
   Medusozoa

Class (Animalia): Hydrozoa

Hydrozoa (hydrozoans, from ancient Greek ὕδωρ, hydōr, "water" and ζῷον, zōion, "animal") are a taxonomic class of individually very small, predatory animals, some solitary and some colonial, most living in salt water. The colonies of the colonial species can be large, and in some cases the specialized individual animals cannot survive outside the colony. A few genera within this class live in fresh water. Hydrozoans are related to jellyfish and corals and belong to the phylum Cnidaria.

Some examples of hydrozoans are the freshwater jelly (Craspedacusta sowerbyi), freshwater polyps (Hydra), Obelia, Portuguese man o' war (Physalia physalis), chondrophores (Porpitidae), "air fern" (Sertularia argentea), and pink-hearted hydroids (Tubularia).


Reference: Wikipedia

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