Cnidarian Classes is a Browse By group of the Nature Atlas that gathers the classes of cnidarians, corals and anemones, true jellyfish, hydrozoans and box jellyfish. An entry belongs here when its own cited article states that it is a class of cnidarians. It excludes classes of other animal phyla. Members are placed by the classification their cited article gives, not by common name or appearance alone.
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Anthozoa (Wikipedia)
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Anthozoa is one of the three subphyla of Cnidaria, along with Medusozoa and Endocnidozoa.
Scyphozoa (Wikipedia)
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The Scyphozoa are an exclusively marine class of the phylum Cnidaria, referred to as the true jellyfish (or "true jellies").
Hydrozoa (Wikipedia)
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Hydrozoa (hydrozoans; from Ancient Greek ὕδωρ (húdōr) 'water' and ζώα (zóa) 'animals'), also called hydroids, are a taxonomic class of individually very small, predatory animals, some solitary and some colonial, most of which inhabit saline water.
Wikipedia: Box jellyfish
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Box jellyfish (class Cubozoa) are cnidarian animals distinguished by their box-like (i.e., cube-shaped) body.
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