jellyfish

     

Stauromeusae Coronatae Semaeostomeae Rhizostomae

Trivia about jellyfish

  • [Hi, I'm Jeff Probst of "Survivor"] Stings from this marine creature, also called a medusa, should be washed with rubbing alcohol or vinegar
  • Marine biologists call this gelatinous invertebrate of class Scyphozoa & Hydrozoa a medusa
  • The cyanea, a northern type of this, may have 100-foot-long tentacles & not one bone
  • The sea wasp variety of these is so venomous its sting can cause death within a few minutes
  • The tentacles of this 9-letter invertebrate have stinging cells that explode when touched, driving poison into its prey
  • (Survivor's Jeff Probst delivers the clue from Palau.) Palau has a lake named for these gelatinous creatures which, believe me, do not taste good spread on toast
  • A sea wasp is not an insect, but one of these stinging ocean "fish"
  • (Jeff Probst delivers the clue from Zhelin Lake in China.) Called the most primal invertebrate in the world, the freshwater peach blossom type of this coelenterate is making a comeback in China's Zhelin Lake
  • In summer 2010 at least 150 people at a New Hampshire beach were stung by a dead one of these
  • 2008 Nobelist Osamu Shimomura isolated a glowing green fluorescent protein in this aquatic creature