Alatina

Alatinidae
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Cnidaria
Class:	Cubozoa
Order:	Carybdeida
Family:	Alatinidae
Genus:	Alatina; Gershwin, 2005
Genera
	11 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 eleven species:

Alatina alata (Reunaud, 1830)
Alatina grandis (Agassiz & Mayer, 1902)
Alatina madraspatana (Menon, 1930)
Alatina mordens Gershwin, 2005 [synonym of A. moseri]^[2]
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

^ Marinespecies.org
^ Bastian Bentlage, Paulyn Cartwright, Angel A. Yanagihara, Cheryl Lewis, Gemma S. Richards & Allen G. Collins (2010). "Evolution of box jellyfish (Cnidaria: Cubozoa), a group of highly toxic invertebrates". Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 277 (1680): 493–501. doi:10.1098/rspb.2009.1707. PMC 2842657. PMID 19923131. hdl:10088/16117.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

External links

"Alatina" at the Encyclopedia of Life

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[1] Marinespecies.org

[2] Bastian Bentlage, Paulyn Cartwright, Angel A. Yanagihara, Cheryl Lewis, Gemma S. Richards & Allen G. Collins (2010). "Evolution of box jellyfish (Cnidaria: Cubozoa), a group of highly toxic invertebrates". Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 277 (1680): 493–501. doi:10.1098/rspb.2009.1707. PMC 2842657. PMID 19923131. hdl:10088/16117.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

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