Its body is bell-shaped and transparent with a height of 0.18 inches and a diameter from 0.18 up to 0.4 inches, making it smaller than a pinky nail. The immortal jellyfish is almost invisible and resembles a tiny ice cube. However, over 2,000 species of jellyfish exist. There is only one species of immortal jellyfish. Closely related species are Turritopsis rubra and Nemopsis bachei. Due to its cell transformation ability which reverts it to an immature state, it is also called the Benjamin Button jellyfish. It was named by German marine biology student August Friedrich Leopold Weismann in 1883. The species was formerly classified as Turritopsis nutricula along with other jellyfish species. Although it is in the Cnidaria family, it is not a true jellyfish, which is in the class Scyphozoa, not Hydrozoa. The scientific name of the immortal jellyfish is Turritopsis dohrnii. Immortal Jellyfish Classification and Scientific name If it starves or gets sick in its immature state when it’s called a polyp, it cannot regenerate and will die.It has spread throughout the world after getting caught in the ballast waters of long-distance ocean cargo ships.
The species has also been found on the Atlantic Ocean side of Panama, Spain and Japan.The regeneration process is called “transdifferentiation” and it occurs when the jellyfish’s cells convert to an immature polyp state.It is the only jellyfish species that does not remain in the last stage, called the Medusa stage, until death.It is unknown how old the oldest immortal jellyfish is.The only way it can die is by being eaten, being removed from the water, or acquiring a disease. It regularly resets to a sexually immature stage after it has reproduced as well as when it is injured, starving or dying. However, researchers and scientists did not know the facts about their transformation ability until the mid-1990s. It was discovered in 1883 in the Mediterranean Sea. The immortal jellyfish, also known as the Benjamin Button jellyfish, is one of few known animals that can regenerate and live forever, and the only jellyfish species that has an indefinite lifespan.
The immortal jellyfish can regenerate and live forever.
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