Genus: Gelliodes
Species: fibrosa
Interesting facts: Feels spongy, jellylike, and is stretchy; introduced species to Hawaii, compete with indigeous species.
Genus: Gelliodes
Species: fibrosa
Interesting facts: Live in hulls of ships, making it easily introduced to other environments; can reproduce asexually by fragmentation; found in the Philippines, main Hawaiian Islands, and possibly Guam.
Genus: Zygomycale
Species: parishii
Interesting facts: mainly live in shallow environments; found in Caribbean, Brazil, eastern Pacific at Panama, main Hawaiian Islands, Indo-Malay Region, Australia, and Indian Ocean; usually coloured red or brown
Phylum: Cnidarian
Genus: Chironex
Species: fleckeri
Interesting facts: most complicated cnidarian nervous system; have over 500000 cnidocytes in each tentacles; medusae is cube shaped, have limited memory.
Phylum: Cnidarian
Genus: Physalia
Species: physalis
Interesting facts: not actually a single jellyfish, but a colonial organism made up of zooloids; name comes from 16th century sailing boat; no means of propulsion; float on surface of the water.
Phylum: Cnidarian
Genus: Hydra
Species: oligactis
Interesting facts: grows attached to the stems of water plants, the underside of leaves, submerged twigs, and on the surface of stones; tentacles can extend up to 2.5 cm long (1 inch); can be called brown hydra.
Phylum: Platyhelminthes
Genus: Pseudobiceros
Species: bedfordi
Interesting facts: has two male genitalia, one for injection of sperm to another worm, and one used to "fence" and prevent itself from being fertilized; found in Asia and Africa; has a pale pink underside.
Phylum: Platyhelminthes
Genus: Pseudoceros
Species: dimidiatus
Interesting facts: black stripe on the middle and bright colour around it to warn predators not to eat it; all have a orange margin around the edge; grow up to 8 cm (3 inches) long; cold-blooded
Phylum: Plathyhelminthes
Genus: Taenia
Species: solium
Interesting facts: has a scolex on its head with four suckers to attach to human intestine; infects pigs and humans; can become 2-7 meters long; can have 1000 proglottids, each with 50000 eggs, infection can lead to seizures.
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