Question

Distinguish between a hydrozoan polyp and a scyphozoan polyp

Answer 1

Explanation:

The difference between most hydrozoans and most scyphozoans is : in hydrozoans the polyp stage usually predominates, with the medusa small or sometimes absent. ... Hydrozoans also lack cells in the mesoglea, the jelly layer found between the basic cell layers, whereas scyphozoans contain amoeboid cells in the mesoglea

Answer 2

The scyphozoan polyp and hydrozoan polyp can be distinguished on the basis of the reproductive stages.

Explanation:

• The hydrozoans has sexual medusa stage and non sexual polyp stage whereas scyphozoan polyp has reduced asexual polyp stage.
• Hydrozoans has velum at the medusa that helps in the prpulsion whereas this velum is absent in scyphozoan polyp.
• The hydrozoan polyp are found in the marine as well as in the freshwater whereas the scyphozoan polyp is found in the marine water only.
• The hydra shows the hydrozoan polyp whereas jellyfish shows the scyphozoan polyp.

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