Alatina
Alatina | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Cnidaria |
Class: | Cubozoa |
Order: | Carybdeida |
Family: | Alatinidae |
Genus: | Alatina Gershwin, 2005[1] |
Species | |
10 species, see below |
Alatina is a genus of box jellyfish within class Cubozoa. It is the largest of the three known genera in the family Alatinidae, and the only one which is not monotypic. It contains the following ten species:
- Alatina alata (Reunaud, 1830)
- Alatina grandis (Agassiz & Mayer, 1902)
- Alatina madraspatana (Menon, 1930)
- Alatina morandinii (Straehler-Pohl & Jarms, 2011)
- Alatina moseri (Mayer, 1906)
- Alatina pyramis (Haeckel, 1880)
- Alatina rainensis Gershwin, 2005
- Alatina tetraptera (Haeckel, 1880)
References
- ↑ Collins, Allen G. (2010). Collins AG, Jarms G, eds. "Alatina Gershwin, 2005". World list of Cubozoa. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 2018-01-08.
- Gershwin, L. 2005. Carybdea alata auct. and Manokia stiasnyi, reclassification to a new family with description of a new genus and two new species. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum, 51: 501–523.
External links
- Alatina at the Encyclopedia of Life
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