"THE LION'S MANE" LARGEST JELLYFISH IN THE WORLD.

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The world's largest jellyfish is "the lion's mane" is longer than a blue whale. The lion's mane is also known as the giant jellyfish, arctic red jellyfish, or the hair jelly.

SCIENTIFIC  CLASSIFFICATION
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Cnidaria
Class:Scyphozoa
Order:Semaeostomeae
Family:Cyaneidae
Genus:Cyanea
Species:
C. capillata


DESCRIPTION

The bell of the lion's mane jellyfish is scalloped into eight lobes (lappets), each lobe containing from 70 to 150 tentacles, arranged in four fairly distinct rows.


The long, thin tentacles which emanate from the bell's subumbrella have been characterised as “extremely sticky”; they also have stinging cells. This unusual length – longer than a blue whale – has earned it the status of one of the longest known animals in the world.

Lion's mane jellyfish remain mostly very near the surface, at no more than 20 m (66 ft) depth. Their slow pulsations weakly drive them forward, so they depend on ocean currents to travel great distances. As coldwater species, these jellyfish cannot cope with warmer waters.

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