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Genus of hydrozoans

Turritopsis

Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Cnidaria
Class:	Hydrozoa
Order:	Anthoathecata
Family:	Oceaniidae
Genus:	Turritopsis McCrady, 1857
Species
See text
Synonyms
Clavula Wright, 1859 Dendroclava Weismann, 1883

Turritopsis is a genus of hydrozoans in the family Oceaniidae.

Species

According to the World Register of Marine Species, this genus includes the following species:

Turritopsis chevalense (Thorneley, 1904) – species inquirenda
Turritopsis dohrnii (Weismann, 1883) also known as the "Benjamin Button jellyfish", or the "immortal jellyfish". It can reverse its life cycle and transform itself back to a polyp.
Turritopsis fascicularis Fraser, 1943
Turritopsis lata Lendenfeld, 1884
Turritopsis minor (Nutting, 1905)
Turritopsis nutricula McCrady, 1857 (several species, including the "immortal jellyfish", were formerly classified as T. nutricula)
Turritopsis pacifica Maas, 1909
Turritopsis pleurostoma (Péron & Lesueur, 1809) – species inquirenda
Turritopsis polycirrha (Keferstein, 1862)
Turritopsis rubra Farquhar, 1895

"Turritopsis". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 16 June 2011.
"Turritopsis". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 5 August 2012.
Nathaniel Rich (28 November 2012). "Can a Jellyfish Unlock the Secret of Immortality?". The New York Times. Retrieved 28 November 2012. For this reason Turritopsis dohrnii is often referred to as the Benjamin Button jellyfish.
M. P. Miglietta; S. Piraino; S. Kubota; P. Schuchert (2007). "Species in the genus Turritopsis (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa): a molecular evaluation". Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research. 45 (1): 11–19. doi:10.1111/j.1439-0469.2006.00379.x.

Taxon identifiers
Turritopsis	Wikidata: Q3323834 Wikispecies: Turritopsis AFD: Turritopsis BOLD: 104267 CoL: 7Q5KF EoL: 46551370 GBIF: 2266015 iNaturalist: 195485 IRMNG: 1221892 ITIS: 48897 NBN: NHMSYS0021053830 NCBI: 308578 NZOR: 3e5d5550-7851-4f29-9e8b-5d8d300a4f11 Open Tree of Life: 566398 WoRMS: 117056

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