Sunday, January 18, 2009

Hydra (mlticellular)


Hydra are 4-30mm long including there tenticles.

You can find these cool creatures attached to surfaces like water plant stems and on the undersides of floating leaves.

The hydra can reproduce asexually by budding. the tenticles have stinging cells which they use to capture prey like small water fleas.

Classification: Kingdom- Animalia, Phylum- Cnidaria, Class- Hydrozoa

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