Lipkea

Lipkea
A Lipkea specimen from South Africa
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Cnidaria
Class: Staurozoa
Order: Stauromedusae
Suborder: Myostaurida
Family: Lipkeidae
Vogt, 1887[1]
Genus: Lipkea
Vogt, 1886
Species

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Lipkea is a genus of stalked jellyfish. It is the only genus in the monotypic family Lipkeidae. Lipkea species lack tentacles at the end of their bell.[2]

  1. ^ "WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Lipkeidae Vogt, 1887". marinespecies.org. Retrieved 3 August 2013.
  2. ^ Miranda, Lucília S.; Hirano, Yayoi M.; Mills, Claudia E.; Falconer, Audrey; Fenwick, David; Marques, Antonio C.; Collins, Allen G. (2016). "Systematics of stalked jellyfishes (Cnidaria: Staurozoa)". PeerJ. 4: e1951. doi:10.7717/peerj.1951. PMC 4860332. PMID 27168970.