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Carybdeida

Carybdeida is an order of box jellyfish. It contains five families. They are distinguished from other box jellyfish by possessing unbranched muscular bases at the corners of the cubic umbrella. Most species have four tentacles.

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Carybdeida
Tripedalia cystophora
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Cnidaria
Class: Cubozoa
Order: Carybdeida
Gegenbaur, 1857
Families
Synonyms
  • Cubomedusae Haeckel, 1880

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.

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References

  1. "Carybdeida". Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.