Carybdeida
Appearance
Carybdeida | |
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Tripedalia cystophora | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Cnidaria |
Class: | Cubozoa |
Order: | Carybdeida Gegenbaur, 1857 |
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Carybdeida is an order of box jellyfish.[1] It contains five families.[2] They are distinguished from other box jellyfish by possessing unbranched muscular bases at the corners of the cubic umbrella.[3] Most species have four tentacles.
References
[edit]- ^ "Carybdeida". Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
- ^ Bentlage, Bastian; Cartwright, Paulyn; Yanagihara, Angel A.; Lewis, Cheryl; Richards, Gemma S.; Collins, Allen G. (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.
- ^ Daly, Marymegan; et al. (2007). "The phylum Cnidaria: A review of phylogenetic patterns and diversity 300 years after Linnaeus" (PDF). Zootaxa (1668): 127–182. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.1668.1.11.