Alatina

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
Alatina alata
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Cnidaria
Class: Cubozoa
Order: Carybdeida
Family: Alatinidae
Genus: Alatina
Gershwin, 2005[1]
Species

10 species, see below

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.[2]

  • 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)
Alatina tetraptera


References
  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  • 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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