Chirodropus palmatus
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| Chirodropus palmatus is in the center of the image. | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Cnidaria |
| Class: | Cubozoa |
| Order: | Chirodropida |
| Family: | Chirodropidae |
| Genus: | Chirodropus |
| Species: | C. palmatus |
| Binomial name | |
| Chirodropus palmatus Haeckel, 1880 | |
Chirodropus palmatus is a species of box jellyfish. It is one of two species belonging to the genus Chirodropus.
Taxonomy
Recent studies showed that Chirodropus palmatus shares several distinctive physical features with the Chiropsalmidae jellyfish: pendant perradial gastric saccules and leaf-like, interradial lateral gonads.