EVERYDAY SCIENCE

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ZOOLOGY

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Which class contains freshwater cnidarians?
A
Scyphozoa
B
Staurozoa
C
Cubozoa
D
Hydrozoa
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -freshwater jellyfish, any medusa, or free-swimming form, of the genus Craspedacusta, class Hydrozoa (phylum Cnidaria).

Detailed explanation-2: -Most hydrozoans are marine, but hydrozoans also include the few cnidarians that have adapted to fresh water: these are the polyps in the genus Hydra and a few species of small freshwater jellyfish.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Hydrozoa are mostly marine predators that constitute a class in the Cnidaria, to which the corals and jellyfish also belong. Hydroids are a polyp life stage of most hydrozoans, which may be colonial.

Detailed explanation-4: -Freshwater cnidarians inhabit nearly all types of freshwater on all continents (except Antarctica), but only a few species have cosmopolitan distributions.

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