Where did the jellyfish name originate from? When/who named this species Jellyfish?
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Since jellyfish are not actually fish, some people consider the term "jellyfish" a misnomer, and American public aquariums have popularized use of the terms jellies or sea jellies instead.The word "jellyfish" is used to denote several different kinds of cnidarians, all of which have a basic body structure that resembles an umbrella, including scyphozoans, staurozoans (stalked jellyfish), hydrozoans, and cubozoans (box jellyfish).
In its broadest usage, some scientists occasionally include members of the phylum Ctenophora (comb jellies) when they are referring to jellyfish. Other scientists prefer to use the more all-encompassing term "gelatinous zooplankton", when referring to these, together with other soft-bodied animals in the water column.
The class name Scyphozoa comes from the Greek word skyphos denoting a kind of drinking cup and alluding to the cup shape of the organism.
A group of jellyfish is sometimes called a bloom or a swarm. Using "bloom" implies that larger numbers than usual are present.Using "swarm" implies some kind of active ability to stay together, which a few species like Aurelia, the moon jelly, demonstrate. Many jellyfish have a second part of their life cycle, which is called the polyp phase. When single polyps, arising from a single egg, develop into a multiple-polyp cluster, connected to each other by strands of tissue called stolons, they are said to be "colonial." A few polyps never proliferate and are referred to as "solitary" species.
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Check this links for more information ;;;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jelly_fish
http://www.marine-medic.com.au/pages/biology/biologyBreakup/jellyfishNames.pdf
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http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/jellyfish
They surely are photogenic...
The word was invented around 1700–10, the definition was used by around 1910–15.
Their common name was probably chosen due to their texture and appearance as a gelatinous zooplankton. They are not technically a fish.
Their class name, Scyphozoa, game from a Greek word skyphos. This means a type of drinking cup, referring to the cup-like shape of the creature.
http://www.jellyfishfacts.net
Some people have them as pets.
Some Jellyfish sting some people.
Some people eat Jellyfish. Lunch anyone?
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There's no record of when or who named the species; however, scientists give its taxonomy (its classification) in the Hydrozoa Class, which is in the "Medusozoa" Subphylum, which is within the bigger "Cnidaria" Phylum.
(Cnidaria consists of 900 species of animals that mostly marine animals. The The Hydrozoa class contains small, predatory animals that can live mostly in salt water, relating to jellyfish and coral).
Though there is no record of who actually discovered the first jellyfish (since they're over 600 million years old, they must have been known to exist already since they are found all over the world), there have been many recent discoveries of new kinds of jellyfish.
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http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/jellyfish
However, etymonline.com gives a date of 1841. (As a side note, it also states that the word "blubber" was used in reference to jellyfish before it came to mean whale fat.)
http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=jellyfish&searchmode=none
Neither source gives specific references to the supposed first use of the word, so the originator of the word and the context in which it was first used (did it arise more or less spontaneously, or did it first appear in print and then become popular, for example).
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