Chirodropida

Chirodropida
	Chironex sp.
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Cnidaria
Class:	Cubozoa
Order:	Chirodropida; Haeckel, 1880
Families
	Chirodropidae Haeckel, 1880; Chiropsalmidae Thiel, 1936; Chiropsellidae Toshino, Miyake & Shibata, 2015;

Chirodropida is an order of box jellyfishes. They can be distinguished from other box jellyfish by the presence of branched muscular bases at the corners of their cubic umbrella, and of small saccules associated with the gastric cavity. They typically have multiple tentacles at each corner.

References

Daly, Marymegan; et al. (2007). "The phylum Cnidaria: A review of phylogenetic patterns and diversity 300 years after Linnaeus" (PDF). Zootaxa (1668): 127–182.
"Chirodropida". Integrated Taxonomic Information System.

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