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Carybdeidae

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Phylum
  
Cnidaria

Rank
  
Family

Scientific name
  
Carybdeidae

Higher classification
  
Carybdeida

Order
  
Carybdeida

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Lower classifications
  
Alatina alata, Carybdea brevipedalia

Carybdeidae is a small family of venomous box jellyfish within the class Cubozoa.

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Genera and Species

According to the World Register of Marine Species, there is only one genus in this family.

Carybdea PĂ©ron & Lesueur, 1810

  • Carybdea arborifera Maas, 1897
  • Carybdea branchi Gershwin & Gibbons, 2009
  • Carybdea brevipedalia Kishinouyea, 1891
  • Carybdea marsupialis (Linnaeus, 1758)
  • Carybdea morandinii Straehler-Pohl & Jarms 2011
  • Carybdea murrayana Haeckel, 1880
  • Carybdea rastonii Haacke, 1886
  • Carybdea xaymacana Conant, 1897
  • Reclassification

    As at August 2013, the following genera previously classified in this family have been reassigned to the family Carukiidae:

  • Carukia Southcott, 1967
  • Gerongia Gershwin & Alderslade, 2005
  • while the following genus has been reassigned to the family Alatinidae:

  • Manokia
  • while

  • Tripedalia Conant, 1897 is now a member of the family Tripedaliidae
  • References

    Carybdeidae Wikipedia