| Crossota millsae | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Cnidaria |
| Class: | Hydrozoa |
| Order: | Trachymedusae |
| Family: | Rhopalonematidae |
| Genus: | Crossota |
| Species: | C. millsae
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| Binomial name | |
| Crossota millsae Thuesen, 2003
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Crossota millsae is a species of deep-sea hydrozoan.[1] These small ocean-dwelling creatures are bioluminescent; the light emitted by these jellyfish serves as a defense or warning to other creatures.[2] Males and females have both been described, and it reproduces sexually. They are viviparous and females brood baby medusae attached to the gastric canals inside the sub-umbrellar space.
- ^ Thuesen, E.V., 2003. Crossota millsae (Cnidaria: Trachymedusae: Rhopalonematidae), a new species of viviparous hydromedusa from the deep sea off California and Hawaii. Zootaxa, 309: 1-12 http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2003f/zt00309.pdf
- ^ Gasca, Rebeca; Loman-Ramos, Lucio (Jan 2014). "Biodiversity of Medusozoa (Cubozoa, Scyphozoa and Hydrozoa) in Mexico". Mexican Journal of Biodiversity. 85: 154–163. doi:10.7550/rmb.32513.