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Rhopilema is a genus

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 Sea
Mediterranean Sea
The 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...