Rhopilema
Encyclopedia
Rhopilema is a genus
of jellyfish
es.
Species include
Genus
In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...
of jellyfish
Jellyfish
Jellyfish are free-swimming members of the phylum Cnidaria. Medusa is another word for jellyfish, and refers to any free-swimming jellyfish stages in the phylum Cnidaria...
es.
Species include
- R. esculentum ("Bizen kurage") Kishinouye 1891 http://www.jjphoto.dk/animal_archive/rhopilema_esculenta.htm
- R. hispidum ("Hizen kurage") Vanhoffen 1888
- R. nomadica, (Indo-Pacific nomadic jellyfish) a toxic Indo-Pacific variety recently migrated the Mediterranean SeaMediterranean SeaThe Mediterranean Sea is a sea connected to the Atlantic Ocean surrounded by the Mediterranean region and almost completely enclosed by land: on the north by Anatolia and Europe, on the south by North Africa, and on the east by the Levant...