Alatinidae

{{Short description|Family of jellyfishes}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = Alatina-alata-reynaud-1830.png | image_caption = ''Alatina alata'' | taxon = Alatinidae | authority =Gershwin, 2005<ref>{{Cite WoRMS |author =Allen G. Collins |year=2010 |title=Alatinidae |id=266977 |accessdate=January 17, 2012}}</ref> | subdivision_ranks = Genera | subdivision = * ''Alatina'' * ''Manokia'' * ''Keesingia'' }}

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

* ''Alatina'' ** ''Alatina alata'' (Reunaud, 1830)<ref name="Reynaud1830">{{cite book|author=Reynaud, M.|year=1830|chapter=La Carybdée (Méduse) Ailée|title=Centurie Zoologique, ou Choix d'animaux rares, nouveaux ou imparfaitement connus|editor=Lesson. R.P.|publisher=Chéz F.G. Levrault|location=Bruxelles|url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/91262#page/163/mode/1up|page=95, Plate 33}}</ref> ** ''Alatina grandis'' (Agassiz & Mayer, 1902)<ref name="Agassiz&Mayer1902">{{cite book|author=Agassiz, A.|author2=Mayer, A.G.|name-list-style=amp|year=1902|chapter=Medusae|url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/30073#page/21/mode/1up|title=''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|location=Cambridge, U.S.A.|volume=XXVI|issue=3|page=153, Plate 6, figs. 26–31}}</ref> ** ''Alatina madraspatana'' (Menon, 1930)<ref name="Menon1930">{{cite book|author=Menon, M.G.K.|year=1930|chapter=The Scyphomedusae of Madras and the neighbouring coast|title=Bulletin of the Madras Government Museum: New series, natural history section|publisher=Superintendent, Government Press|volume=3|issue=1|pages=28}}</ref> ** ''Alatina mordens'' Gershwin, 2005 [synonym of ''A. moseri'']<ref name=Gershwin2005a>{{cite journal|last=Gershwin|first=Lisa-Ann|date=2005|title=''Carybdea alata'' auct. and ''Manokia stiasnyi'', reclassification to a new family with description of a new genus and two new species|journal= Memoirs of the Queensland Museum |volume=51|issue=2|pages=501–523|location=Brisbane|url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/242650772|issn=0079-8835}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |author1=Bastian Bentlage |author2=Paulyn Cartwright |author3=Angel A. Yanagihara |author4=Cheryl Lewis |author5=Gemma S. Richards |author6=Allen G. Collins |year=2010 |title=Evolution of box jellyfish (Cnidaria: Cubozoa), a group of highly toxic invertebrates |journal=Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences |volume=277 |issue=1680 |pages=493–501 |doi=10.1098/rspb.2009.1707 |pmid=19923131 |pmc=2842657 |hdl=10088/16117}}</ref> ** ''Alatina moseri'' (Mayer, 1906)<ref name="Mayer1906">{{cite book|author=Mayer, A.G.|year=1906|article=Medusae of the Hawaiian Islands collected by the Steamer Albatross in 1902|title=The Aquatic Resources of the Hawaiian Islands: Miscellaneous Papers|article-url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/211254#page/579/mode/1up|series=Bull. US Fish Comm. for 1903|publisher=Govt. print|location=Washington|volume=XXIII (III)|pages=1131–1143}}</ref> ** ''Alatina obeliscus'' (Haeckel, 1880)<ref name=Haeckel1880>{{cite journal |author=Haeckel, E. |year=1880 |title=System der Acraspeden: Zweite Halfte des System der Medusen |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/120728#page/9/mode/1up|editor=Gustav Fisher|language=German|journal=Denkschriften der Medicinisch-Naturwissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft zu Jena|volume=1|issue=2|pages=672}}</ref> ** ''Alatina philippina'' (Haeckel, 1880)<ref name=Haeckel1880/> ** ''Alatina pyramis'' (Haeckel, 1880)<ref name=Haeckel1880/> ** ''Alatina rainensis'' Gershwin, 2005<ref name=Gershwin2005a/> ** ''Alatina tetraptera'' (Haeckel, 1880)<ref name=Haeckel1880/> ** ''Alatina turricola'' (Haeckel, 1880)<ref name=Haeckel1880/> * ''Manokia'' ** ''Manokia stiasnyi'' (Bigelow, 1938)<ref name=Bigelow1938>{{cite journal|author=Bigelow, H.B.|year=1938|title=Plankton of the Bermuda Oceanographic Expeditions. VIII. Medusae taken during the years 1929 and 1930|url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/50997399#page/157/mode/1up|journal=Zoologica|volume=23|issue=5|pages=99–189}}</ref> * ''Keesingia'' ** ''Keesingia gigas'' (Gershwin, 2014)<ref name=Gershwin2014>{{cite journal|last=Gershwin|first=Lisa-Ann|date=2014|title=Two new species of box jellies (Cnidaria: Cubozoa: Carybdeida) from the central coast of Western Australia, both presumed to cause Irukandji syndrome|journal= Records of the Western Australian Museum |volume=29|issue=1|page=10 |doi=10.18195/issn.0312-3162.29(1).2014.010-019 |url=http://museum.wa.gov.au/research/records-supplements/records/two-new-species-box-jellies-cnidaria-cubozoa-carybdeida-central|doi-access=free}}</ref>

==References== {{Reflist}}

Category:Alatinidae Category:Carybdeida Category:Cnidaria families