Alatinidae is a family of
box jellyfish within class
Cubozoa, containing the following genera and species:
* ''
Alatina''
** ''
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 ...
''
(Reunaud, 1830)
** ''
Alatina grandis''
(Agassiz & Mayer, 1902)
** ''
Alatina madraspatana''
(Menon, 1930)
** ''
Alatina mordens''
Gershwin, 2005 ynonym of ''A. moseri''ref name=Gershwin2005a>
** ''
Alatina moseri''
(Mayer, 1906)
** ''
Alatina obeliscus
''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 ...
''
(Haeckel, 1880)
** ''
Alatina philippina
''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, 183 ...
''
(Haeckel, 1880)[
** '' Alatina pyramis'' (Haeckel, 1880)][
** '' Alatina rainensis'' Gershwin, 2005][
** '' Alatina tetraptera'' (Haeckel, 1880)][
** '' Alatina turricola'' (Haeckel, 1880)][
* ''Manokia''
** '' Manokia stiasnyi'' (Bigelow, 1938)]Keesingia gigas
''Keesingia gigas'', the "giant" (Greek ''gigas'') ''Keesingia'', is one of two new species of Irukandji jellyfish, the only one of the genus ''Keesingia'' in the Alatinidae, Alatinid family.
Found off the north-west coast of Western Australia, ...
'' (Gershwin, 2014)
References
Carybdeida
Cnidarian families
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