Introducing 

Prezi AI.

Your new presentation assistant.

Refine, enhance, and tailor your content, source relevant images, and edit visuals quicker than ever before.

Loading…
Transcript

Comb jellyfish

comb jellyfishes are transparent jellyfishes that drift through waters in the ocean.

Comb Jellyfishes are named for their unique feature which is a giant fused cilla that are known as combs, they run in 8 rows up and down their bodies the combs are like tiny oars moving the comb jelly in the ocean.

Name

Comb Jelly

Their Scientific Name

Their Scientific name is ctenophore.

Comb Jellies are transparent that have jelly like bodies that have bright iridescent color bands. They also have tiny hairs that are called combs. they have no eyes and they can be as small as your fingernail or they can be up to 6 feet wide, they can weigh up to 440 pounds.

Look

Move

Comb Jellies move by using there eight rows of some tiny comblike plates that it beats to move itself through the ocean.

they also move with their combs and they act like tiny oars moving it self through the water.

comb jelly

how comb jellies move

Comb Jellyfish are carnivores and they eat much smaller organims like microsopic plankton, other jellyfish and various crustaceans.

They eat them by paralyzing their prey first and then inisde their body in their bell shaped body they have an opening which is their mouth.

Eat

Catch

Comb jellys catch their food by floating in the water and catching what they can with their stingers.

Comb jellies live in the ocean in all areas. They live around the eastern coasts of america. most of there speices like warm tempeture, tropical, or subtropical waters. They live in the deep ocean more than 7,000 meters down.

live

One of their adaptations is that Comb jellies produce light. they have protiens in some tissues that make a chemical reaction to make blue or green light.

Another adaptation they have is when there is a predetor they sting them to protect themselves.

adaptations

They reproduce at night and when food is plentiful. Jellyfishes hatch after a day the egg hatches into the laravel comb jelly, then they have two tenticles to capture prey. When it gets bigger it begins to absorb its tenticles and grow out lobes to start catching more prey.

Comb jellyfishes live for less than a month or until 3 years.

life

cycle

Behavior

behavior

Comb jellies can control the water flow around themselves for movement by jet propulsion to catch their prey. They sometimes actively seek their prey or they ambush for it.

behavior

Comb jellies protect themsleves by using their bodies to camouflage in the sea. They have transparent bodies so it is very difficult for them to see them.

defend

Comb jellies have many predetors. Some predetors are fish, sea turtles, crustaceans, other jellyfish and sometimes even people eat them.

predators

predetors

predetors

Something speical

speical

the comb jelly is speical because it is transparent. and also it produces light and it makes it look cool.

Are they extinct?

Comb jellies are not extinct they live all around the worlds ocean.

extinction

Learn more about creating dynamic, engaging presentations with Prezi