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Chirodropida

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Chirodropida

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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.

Species

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ORDER

  1. KingdomAnimalia
  2. PhylumCnidaria
  3. ClassCubozoa
  4. OrderChirodropida
Habitatmarine
Observations recorded809

Chirodropida est un ordre de cuboméduses (cnidaires de la classe des Cubozoa).

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Parent taxon
box jellyfish
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Chirodropida
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Chirodropida
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Category:Chirodropida
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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==

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Chirodropida” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.