Alatina

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

10 species, see below.

Video of Alatina swimming at depth, taken near the Bahamas.

Alatina is a genus of box jellyfish within class Cubozoa. It is the largest of the three known genera in the family Alatinidae, and the only one which is not monotypic. It contains the following ten species:

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