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Upside-down/Mangrove Jellies

Common Name: Upside-down/Mangrove Jellies

Scientific Name: Cassiopeia sp.

Order:Cnidaria

Range: Southern Gulf of Mexico, Caribbean, and other tropical waters

Diet: Photosynthetic single-celled organisms, zooxanthellae that provide the jelly with nutrients

Facts: 1. Has a mutualistic relationship with zooxathallae (a single-celled photosythetic organism) that lives in its tentacles. Zooxathallae provides the jelly with nutrients and the jelly protects the zooathallae and gives nitrogen and carbon dioxide 2. Swims upright but turns upside down to rest on the ocean floor 3. is in the phylum cnidaria which has existed on this earth for around 600 million years

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