What species is jellyfish?

Answer 1

There are over 200 species of Scyphozoa, about 50 species of Staurozoa, about 20 species of Cubozoa, and in Hydrozoa there are about 1000-1500 species that produce medusae (and many more hydrozoa species that do not).

Answer 2

Cyanea capillata which is a Coelenterate and was used as a villain in Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes and the adventure of the Lion's Mane. It has many tentacles, yellow in colour which on contact causes painful lip biting sting and on close contact for five to ten minutes causes death. It spreads near the sea shore where many people go for swimming. Be careful of the Yellow Tentacles which appear as debris of the ocean which conceal the deadly painful schyphozoan animal.

Answer 3

The phylum, Cnidaria, comes from the Greek word 'cnidos', which means stinging nettle. However, in specific terms, nettle jellyfish usually refers to the genus, Chrysaora; family, Pelagiidae; order, Semaeostomeae; class, Scyphozoa.

Species within the genus, Chrysaora, include:

C. achlyos black sea nettle

C. colorata purple-striped sea nettle

C. fuscescens Pacific sea nettle

C. hysoscella compass jelly

C. melanaster northern sea nettle

C. pacifica Japanese sea nettle

C. quinquecirrha Atlantic sea nettle

Answer 4

kyreneme klickeri

or

irukanji

Answer 5

There are 19 species, each with a different scientific name, but the two most venomous are Chironex fleckeri and Carukia barnesi.

Answer 6

Cindoria sypozoa aorelia

Answer 7

Medusozoa