''Alatina'' is a

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within class

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. It is the largest of the three known genera in the family Alatinidae, and the only one which is not

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. It contains the following ten

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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 ...

'' (Reunaud, 1830) * '' 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. *'' 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) Procharybdis tetraptera aka Alatina tetraptera (Haeckel, 1880)

Procharybdis tetraptera aka 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.

External links

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