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Octavio’s 

Book

Cnidarian

Cnidarian

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Cnidarians are 
Invertebrates 

(no backbones)

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The hydras 
and jellyfishes 
are cnidarians

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The jellyfish can 
be a few inches in 
width and the 
largest can be 
over 6 feet

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Cnidarians are 
aquatic 

animals, 

mostly marine

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The anemone 
and the red
coral are 
cnidarians

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The body of a 
cnidarians is 

sack with an 
opening.
 

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This opening 
is surrounded 
by many  
poisonous 
tentacles

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The Portuguese 
Man of War
 is 
a colony of 
poisonous 
cnidarians

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Some 

cnidarians

 

have the 

Medusa

 form, 

and living free

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In the 

medusa 

form the 
tentacles 
dangle down
 

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The sea 
nettles 
have medusa 
form

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Others cnidarians 
have the

 

Polyp 

form, 

and living in 
colonies

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Polyps form is 
when the 
cnidarians are 
connected to 
the bottom

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The brain coral 
and the pillar 
coral have the 
polyps form

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The coral polyps 
form reefs that 
can stretch for 
thousand of miles

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The largest coral 
reef is the Great 
Barrier Reef at the 
northeast of 
Australia

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The coral reef 
are the home of 
an amazing 
variety of animals

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There are 
more than

 

11,000 

species

 

of Cnidarians


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