Is a jellyfish an animal or a plant? Explained clearly in one article

Jellyfish, also called jellyfish (medusa), is mainly produced along the southeast coast of China. Every year during August-September, jellyfish often float in groups on the sea surface, and sometimes are washed ashore and stranded on the beach, where fishermen catch them and take them home. So is a jellyfish an animal or a plant?

1. Is a jellyfish an animal or a plant

The jellyfish is an animal. It belongs to the class Scyphozoa and is a kind of coelenterate soft-bodied animal living in the sea, that is, a coelenterate. Coelenterates have no specialized respiratory or excretory organs. Because the body is composed of two layers of cells surrounding a gastrovascular cavity and connects the gastric cavity with the outside through the mouth, in fact both layers of cells in the body wall are in contact with the external environment, so respiration and excretion can be carried out directly and independently by the body wall cells.

2. What is the difference between jellyfish (medusa) and jellyfish?

The scope of jellyfish (medusa) is broad; there are many kinds of jellyfish (medusa), and jellyfish (medusa) also includes freshwater jellyfish and saltwater jellyfish, while jellyfish refers to several kinds of edible jellyfish among the jellyfish produced in the sea. Simply put, the ones that can be eaten are called jellyfish, and the ones that cannot be eaten are called jellyfish (medusa).