Editing Jellyfish (section)

== Names ==
The name jellyfish, in use since 1796,<ref name=etymol>{{cite web |title=jellyfish |url=http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=jellyfish |website=Online Etymology Dictionary |access-date=9 June 2018}}</ref> has traditionally been applied to medusae and all similar animals including the comb jellies ([[ctenophores]], another phylum).<ref>{{Cite book |last=Kelman |first=Janet Harvey |author2=Rev. Theodore Wood |title=The Sea-Shore, Shown to the Children |publisher=T. C. & E. C. Jack |location=London |year=1910 |page=146 |ol=7043926M }}</ref><ref>{{cite book | last1=Kaplan | first1=Eugene H. | last2=Kaplan | first2=Susan L. | last3=Peterson | first3=Roger Tory | title=A Field Guide to Coral Reefs: Caribbean and Florida | url={{google books|plainurl=y|id=OLYPWMoBkccC|page=55}}|date=August 1999 | publisher=Boston : Houghton Mifflin | isbn=978-0-618-00211-5 | page=55}}</ref> The term ''jellies'' or ''sea jellies'' is more recent, having been introduced by public aquaria in an effort to avoid use of the word "fish" with its modern connotation of an animal with a backbone, though [[shellfish]], [[cuttlefish]] and [[starfish]] are not vertebrates either.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2009-04-06|title=Flower Hat Jelly|url=http://www.nyaquarium.com/look-and-learn/animal-profiles/flower-hat-jelly.aspx|access-date=2023-02-10|archive-date=6 April 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090406102702/http://www.nyaquarium.com/look-and-learn/animal-profiles/flower-hat-jelly.aspx|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=What is a Fish? |url=http://eol.org/info/442 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180324085114/http://eol.org/info/442 |archive-date=24 March 2018 |publisher=Encyclopedia of Life |access-date=13 October 2018 |quote=And most people know that lampreys, sharks, rays, eels, seahorses, and other strange-looking aquatic creatures are fishes, while shellfish, cuttlefish, starfish, crayfish, and jellyfish (despite their names) are not fishes.}}</ref> In scientific literature, "jelly" and "jellyfish" have been used interchangeably.<ref>Brotz, Lucas. [https://circle.ubc.ca/bitstream/id/142376/ubc_2011_fall_brotz_lucas.pdf Changing Jellyfish Populations: Trends in Large Marine Ecosystems] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130416022805/https://circle.ubc.ca/bitstream/id/142376/ubc_2011_fall_brotz_lucas.pdf |date=16 April 2013}}. 2011. p.1.</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Coulombe |first=Deborah A. |title=Seaside Naturalist: A Guide to Study at the Seashore |url={{google books |plainurl=y |id=VOoqKMdI0ekC|page=1}}|publisher=[[Simon & Schuster]] |access-date=20 March 2013 |page=60 |date=14 February 1990 |isbn=978-0-671-76503-3 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131231191449/http://books.google.com/books?id=VOoqKMdI0ekC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA60 |archive-date=31 December 2013}}</ref> Many sources refer to only [[scyphozoa]]ns as "true jellyfish".<ref>{{cite web |url=http://animals.about.com/od/cnidarians/a/tenfactsjellyfi.htm |title=Ten Facts about Jellyfish |last=Klappenbach |first=Laura |access-date=24 January 2010 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090226225745/http://animals.about.com/od/cnidarians/a/tenfactsjellyfi.htm |archive-date=26 February 2009}}</ref>

A group of jellyfish is called a "smack"<ref>{{Cite book|last=Lipton|first=James|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AVNazQEACAAJ|title=An Exaltation of Larks|date=1991|publisher=Viking|isbn=978-0-670-30044-0|language=en}}</ref> or a "smuck".<ref>{{Cite book|last=Maciver|first=Angus|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4eE0AgAAQBAJ|title=First Aid in English|date=2004|publisher=Hodder Gibson (Hachette)|isbn=978-1-444-19376-3|language=en}}</ref>