| Lucernaria janetae | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Cnidaria |
| Class: | Staurozoa |
| Order: | Stauromedusae |
| Family: | Lucernariidae |
| Genus: | Lucernaria |
| Species: | L. janetae
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| Binomial name | |
| Lucernaria janetae Collins and Daly, 2005[1]
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Lucernaria janetae is an exceptionally large stalked jellyfish discovered on deep-sea hydrothermal vents on the East Pacific Rise in 2003 and described in 2005.[1]
- ^ a b A. G. Collins & M. Daly (2005). "A New Deepwater Species of Stauromedusae, Lucernaria janetae (Cnidaria, Staurozoa, Lucernariidae), and a Preliminary Investigation of Stauromedusan Phylogeny Based on Nuclear and Mitochondrial rDNA Data". The Biological Bulletin. 208 (3): 221–230. doi:10.2307/3593154. JSTOR 3593154. PMID 15965127. S2CID 1787470.