Rhopilema

Taxobox
name = "Rhopilema"


image_caption = "Rhopilema nomadica"
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Cnidaria
classis = Scyphozoa
ordo = Semaeostomeae
familia = Pelagiidae
genus = "Rhopilema"
genus_authority = Haeckel, 1880
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision = :"R. esculentum":"R. hispidum":"R. nomadica"

Rhopilema is a genus of jellyfishes.

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