Alatinidae

Alatinidae is a family of box jellyfish within class Cubozoa, containing the following genera and species:

  • Alatina
    • Alatina alata (Reunaud, 1830)[2]
    • Alatina grandis (Agassiz & Mayer, 1902)[3]
    • Alatina madraspatana (Menon, 1930)[4]
    • Alatina mordens Gershwin, 2005 [synonym of A. moseri][5][6]
    • Alatina moseri (Mayer, 1906)[7]
    • Alatina obeliscus (Haeckel, 1880)[8]
    • Alatina philippina (Haeckel, 1880)[8]
    • Alatina pyramis (Haeckel, 1880)[8]
    • Alatina rainensis Gershwin, 2005[5]
    • Alatina tetraptera (Haeckel, 1880)[8]
    • Alatina turricola (Haeckel, 1880)[8]
  • Manokia
    • Manokia stiasnyi (Bigelow, 1938)[9]
  • Keesingia
    • Keesingia gigas (Gershwin, 2014)[10]

Alatinidae
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Cnidaria
Class: Cubozoa
Order: Carybdeida
Family: Alatinidae
Gershwin, 2005[1]
Genera

References
  1. Allen G. Collins (2010). "Alatinidae". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved January 17, 2012.
  2. Reynaud, M. (1830). "La Carybdée (Méduse) Ailée". In Lesson. R.P. (ed.). Centurie Zoologique, ou Choix d'animaux rares, nouveaux ou imparfaitement connus. Bruxelles: Chéz F.G. Levrault. p. 95, Plate 33.
  3. Agassiz, A. & Mayer, A.G. (1902). "Medusae". In Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoölogy at Harvard College: Reports on the scientific results of the expedition to the tropical Pacific in charge of Alexander Agassiz, by the U.S. Fish Commission steamer “Albatross,” from August, 1899, to March, 1900, Commander Jefferson F. Moser, U. S. N., Commanding. XXVI. Cambridge, U.S.A. p. 153, Plate 6, figs. 26-31.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  4. Menon, M.G.K. (1930). "The Scyphomedusae of Madras and the neighbouring coast". Bulletin of the Madras Government Museum: New series, natural history section. 3. Superintendent, Government Press. p. 28.
  5. Gershwin, Lisa-Ann (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. Brisbane. 51 (2): 501–523. ISSN 0079-8835.
  6. Bastian Bentlage; Paulyn Cartwright; Angel A. Yanagihara; Cheryl Lewis; Gemma S. Richards; Allen G. Collins (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. hdl:10088/16117. PMC 2842657. PMID 19923131.
  7. Mayer, A.G. (1906). "Medusae of the Hawaiian Islands collected by the Steamer Albatross in 1902". The Aquatic Resources of the Hawaiian Islands: Miscellaneous Papers. Bull. US Fish Comm. for 1903. XXIII (III). Washington: Govt. print. p. 1131–1143.
  8. Haeckel, E. (1880). "System der Acraspeden: Zweite Halfte des System der Medusen". Denkschriften der Medicinisch-Naturwissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft zu Jena (in German). Gustav Fisher (ed.). 1 (2): 672.
  9. Bigelow, H.B. (1938). "Plankton of the Bermuda Oceanographic Expeditions. VIII. Medusae taken during the years 1929 and 1930". Zoologica. 23 (5): 99-189.
  10. Gershwin, Lisa-Ann (2014). "Two new species of box jellies (Cnidaria: Cubozoa: Carybdeida) from the central coast of Western Australia, both presumed to cause Irukandji syndrome". Records of the Western Australian Museum. 29 (1).


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