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The Jellyfish ClipArt gallery includes 82 line drawings of the phylum cnidaria, Jellyfish are free-swimming creatures that are also called medusa.

Jellyfish have several different morphologies that represent several different cnidarian classes including the Scyphozoa. Stages in the development of a scyphozoan jellfish shows the attached young.

Scyphozoan Jellyfish

Jellyfish have several different morphologies that represent several different cnidarian classes including…

Jellyfish have several different morphologies that represent several different cnidarian classes including the Scyphozoa. Stages in the development of a scyphozoan jellfish shows the attached young, whin has separated into a number of disks, each of which becomes a jellyfish.

Scyphozoan Jellyfish

Jellyfish have several different morphologies that represent several different cnidarian classes including…

Jellyfish have several different morphologies that represent several different cnidarian classes including the Scyphozoa. Fully developed scyphozoan jellyfish.

Scyphozoan Jellyfish

Jellyfish have several different morphologies that represent several different cnidarian classes including…

"With four foliaceous arms, and long filaments depending from the rim of th umbrella, also found in the South Seas." — Goodrich, 1859

Pelagia labiche

"With four foliaceous arms, and long filaments depending from the rim of th umbrella, also found in…

"Stages in the development of Laomedea; A-F stages in segmentation; G, the planula enclosed in the maternal tissues; H, the free-swimming planula." -Parker, 1900

Laomedea

"Stages in the development of Laomedea; A-F stages in segmentation; G, the planula enclosed in the maternal…

The Lucernaria jellyfish.

Lucernaria

The Lucernaria jellyfish.

"Diagram of Lucernaria. C., Cavity of gut (colenteron); F., gastric filaments; H. hypostome; G., gonad; T. tentacle; cc., circumference canal." -Thomson, 1916

Lucernaria

"Diagram of Lucernaria. C., Cavity of gut (colenteron); F., gastric filaments; H. hypostome; G., gonad;…

Portuguese Man of War floating above the surface of the water.

Portuguese Man of War

Portuguese Man of War floating above the surface of the water.

The Portugures man-of-war has a bladderlike float, and locomotion depends upon the wind and current. they have well-developed stinging cells.

Portuguese Man-of-War

The Portugures man-of-war has a bladderlike float, and locomotion depends upon the wind and current.…

"They usually inhabit the deep seas. They are rarely solitary, but seem to wander about in considerable battalions in the latitudes to which they belong."

Fleet of Medusa

"They usually inhabit the deep seas. They are rarely solitary, but seem to wander about in considerable…

"A medusoid; ma., manubrium; r.c., radial canal; s., sense-organ." -Thomson, 1916

Medusoid

"A medusoid; ma., manubrium; r.c., radial canal; s., sense-organ." -Thomson, 1916

"Structure of a Medusoid. ST., Stomach; M., manubrium; V., velum; T., tentacle; C.C., circumference canal; G., gonad; R.C., radial canal; EN., endoderm; EC., ectoderm; MG, mesogloea." -Thomson, 1916

Medusoid Structure

"Structure of a Medusoid. ST., Stomach; M., manubrium; V., velum; T., tentacle; C.C., circumference…

"With a nearly hemispherical body, showing a long proboscis, at the root of which are eight branchiferous appendages, inhabiting the South Seas." — Goodrich, 1859

Favonia octonema

"With a nearly hemispherical body, showing a long proboscis, at the root of which are eight branchiferous…

"Physalia, the Portuguese Man-of-war." — Galloway

Physalia

"Physalia, the Portuguese Man-of-war." — Galloway

"Physalia has no proper mouth, but the food is conveyed to the digestive cavity through a number of flask like appendages, which hang down beneath, each having an orifice and a sort of sucker." — Chambers' Encyclopedia, 1875

Physalia

"Physalia has no proper mouth, but the food is conveyed to the digestive cavity through a number of…

"Fresh-water polype (hydra), two specimens, the one expanded the other contracted, showing multiplication by buddin. bd1 bd2 bd3, buds in various stages of growth." -Parker, 1900

Freshwater Polyp

"Fresh-water polype (hydra), two specimens, the one expanded the other contracted, showing multiplication…

"The <em>Porpitae</em> consist of colonies of floating animals furnished with a cartilaginous, horizontal and rounded skeleton, but they are destitute of crest or veil."

Porpita Pacifica

"The Porpitae consist of colonies of floating animals furnished with a cartilaginous, horizontal…

"These fragile creatures are able to make long voyages on the surface of the sea. Their nature is such that they are required to keep constantly moving in order to sustain themselves in the fluid which they inhabit. There is a double movement of their light skeletons, which may be compared to the action of respiration in the human hest."

Rhyzostoma Cuvierii

"These fragile creatures are able to make long voyages on the surface of the sea. Their nature is such…

A type of comb jelly having two tenticals and no oral lobes.

Saccatae

A type of comb jelly having two tenticals and no oral lobes.

In animals there are different types of sight. Some have what we call simple eyes. The simplest eyes are not capable of forming an image or picture of external objects. They only make the animal able to distinguish between light and darkness or shadow. This diagram shows the simple eye or a jellyfish.

Sense of Sight

In animals there are different types of sight. Some have what we call simple eyes. The simplest eyes…

"a a, expanded polypes; b b, polypes withdrawn into their cells; c c, coral uncovered by flesh, showing the cells. In this the corals usually form thick stony masses; the stony rays of the cells are exceedingly numerous, and the cells themselves penetrate deeply into the mass of coral, although they are generally partially divided by imperfect transverse partitions." &mdash; Goodrich, 1859

Astrae virdis

"a a, expanded polypes; b b, polypes withdrawn into their cells; c c, coral uncovered by flesh, showing…

There is a large oblong crested float which buoys the fish up, from which hang many tenticles, which can attain a length of 12 feet. The tenticles produce a powerful stinging sensation when touched.

Portuguese Man of War

There is a large oblong crested float which buoys the fish up, from which hang many tenticles, which…