''Alatina'' is a
genus
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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
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. It contains the following ten
species
A species () is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate sexes or mating types can produce fertile offspring, typically by sexual reproduction. It is the basic unit of Taxonomy (biology), ...
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Alatina alata
''Alatina alata'' (Reynaud, 1830), often called a sea wasp, is a species of box jellyfish found in the Pacific, Indian and Atlantic Oceans and in the Caribbean and Arabian Sea.
Ecology
''Alatina alata'' is mostly observed in shallow near shore ...
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(Reunaud, 1830)
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Alatina grandis''
(Agassiz & Mayer, 1902)
Alatina Grandis is the largest known jellyfish in this genus, and is highly rare with a bell size of approximately 180mm and 110mm in height and width respectively.
[Ilka Straehler-Pohl, George I. Matsumoto, Melisa J. Acevedo. Recognition of the Californian cubozoan population as a new species—''Carybdea confusa'' n. sp. (Cnidaria, Cubozoa, Carybdeida). Plankton and Benthos Research. 2017, Vol.12, No.2, p.129.]
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Alatina madraspatana''
(Menon, 1930)
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Alatina morandinii
''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
''Alatin ...
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(Straehler-Pohl & Jarms, 2011)
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Alatina moseri''
(Mayer, 1906)
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Alatina pyramis''
(Haeckel, 1880)
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Alatina rainensis''
(Gershwin, 2005)
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Alatina tetraptera''
(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.
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