''Rhopilema'' is a
genus
Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family (taxonomy), family as used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In bino ...
of
jellyfish
Jellyfish, also known as sea jellies or simply jellies, are the #Life cycle, medusa-phase of certain gelatinous members of the subphylum Medusozoa, which is a major part of the phylum Cnidaria. Jellyfish are mainly free-swimming marine animal ...
.
Species include:
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Rhopilema asamushi''
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Rhopilema esculentum
''Rhopilema esculentum'', the flame jellyfish, is a species of jellyfish native to the warm temperate waters of the Pacific Ocean. It is a popular seafood in southeastern Asia. In the 1980s, research was undertaken in China into its aquaculture, ...
'' ("Bizen kurage")
Kishinouye 1891
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Rhopilema hispidum'' ("Hizen kurage")
Vanhoffen 1888
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Rhopilema nomadica
''Rhopilema nomadica'', the nomad jellyfish, is a jellyfish indigenous to tropical warm waters of the Indian and Pacific Oceans. Since 1970's it has been also found in Mediterranean Sea, where it entered via the Suez Canal ( Lessepsian migration) ...
'', (Indo-Pacific nomadic jellyfish) a dangerously venomous Indo-Pacific species recently introduced to the Mediterranean Sea
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Rhopilema rhopalophorum''
Haeckel, 1880 Rhopilema rhopalophora is a synonym.
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Rhopilema verrilli
''Rhopilema verrilli'', the mushroom cap jellyfish, is a species of jellyfish in the family Rhizostomatidae. They are cnidarian invertebrates distinguished by their mushroom-shaped medusae. The species does not have any tentacles; however, they ...
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Rhizostomatidae
Scyphozoan genera
Taxa named by Ernst Haeckel
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