#what did hydrozoans ever do to her :( and cuboozans :( | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

the-jellydex · 4 months ago

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Reminder to all my jellyfriends that hydrozoan and cubozoan jellyfish are true jellyfish too :)

The distinction between Scyphozoa, Hydrozoa, and Cubozoa- while morphological and pronounced- are not different enough for them to be disqualified from the term. In any case, they mainly fill the same ecological niche (especially Scyphozoa and Hydrozoa) and have vaguely the same body structure, so you can’t really call the other two “fake jellyfish”

#the only fake jellyfish are plastic bags #I’ve been watching exoticaquaculture on instagram and every time this point comes up I get so sad #what did hydrozoans ever do to her :( and cuboozans :(#hydrozoans are silly jellyfish #scyphozoans are mainstream jellyfish #and box jellyfish are hurty jellyfish #.professor jellyfish talks #this post is less formal in nature than my others but I think I need to shout this into the void every so often #i don’t blame you if you don’t count combs or salps as jellyfish but like… cnidarians man

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