The Digestive System of the Purple Striped Jellyfish (Pelagia Noctiluca)
The Jellyfish usually tries to eat anything that comes in its path. They are also carnivores who eat small fish, fish eggs, plankton, crabs, snails, and in some cases other plankton. The first step of their digestion is when they sting their pray with their tentacles in attempt to paralyze of kill their prey. Then they get closer to their prey and put it in their mouth by forcing themselves onto it. The Jelly fish do not have a normal digestive system with pancreas, liver, and intestines but has a coelenteron. This serves as the Jellyfishes stomach and intestine. The food goes through the mouth and is digested in the coelenteron. Their anus is the same hole as their mouth and the waste comes out of their when they are done.