Alatina
| Alatina | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Cnidaria |
| Class: | Cubozoa |
| Order: | Carybdeida |
| Family: | Alatinidae |
| Genus: | Alatina Gershwin, 2005 [1] |
| Genera | |
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10 species, see below. | |
Video of Alatina swimming at depth, taken near the Bahamas.
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 moseri (Mayer, 1906)
- Alatina obeliscus (Haeckel, 1880)
- Alatina philippina (Haeckel, 1880)
- Alatina pyramis (Haeckel, 1880)
- Alatina rainensis Gershwin, 2005
- Alatina tetraptera (Haeckel, 1880)
- Alatina turricola (Haeckel, 1880)
References
- 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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