Tamoya haplonema

Tamoya haplonema
Illustration from Medusae of the World by Alfred G. Mayer (1910)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Cnidaria
Class: Cubozoa
Order: Carybdeida
Family: Tamoyidae
Genus: Tamoya
Species:
T. haplonema
Binomial name
Tamoya haplonema

Tamoya haplonema is a species of box jellyfish in the genus Tamoya. It is the type species of the genus and was described in 1859. The medusa possesses four tentacles, one each on an inter-radial pedal.[1]

  1. ^ Morandini, André C.; Ascher, Denise; Stampar, Sergio N.; Ferreira, João Fernando V. (2005). "Cubozoa e Scyphozoa (Cnidaria: Medusozoa) de águas costeiras do Brasil". Iheringia. Série Zoologia. 95 (3): 281–294. doi:10.1590/s0073-47212005000300008. ISSN 0073-4721.