The two jellyfish are named Goochy. One is a Beanie Baby and the other is a Beanie Buddy made by Ty Inc. Goochy is at the Jeannie's Cottage Gift Shop.
Jellyfish belong to the phylum Coelenterata. They are water-dwelling animals. The name Coelenterata literally means hollow intestine and refers to the central cavity of the animal. These animals are translucent and gelatinous. They come in a variety of shapes, sizes and colors and they all have long, dangling tentacles
equipped with stingers for obtaining food and fighting off predators. Bathers and swimmers take note: The sting is poisonous and has a paralyzing effect.
The Coelenterata is made up of four classes: Hydrozoa, Scyphozoa, Anthozoa and Ctenophora. Jellyfish are found in the Scyphozoan and Hydrozoan classes. Comb jellies and sea walnuts have a superficial resemblance to jellyfish and are often called jellyfish. They belong to the Ctenophoran class.
Jellyfish can be as small as 1/16 of an inch across to over 6 feet. The Portuguese Man-of-War (Physalia physalia) has tentacles up to 50 feet long. The By-the-wind Sailor is about 2 to 4 inches wide with short tentacles
Species and individuals are most numerous in warm tropic seas, but jellyfish can also be found in colder waters; in fact, one of the larger medusae, Chrysaora, is found in the North sea.
