Lipkea
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| A Lipkea specimen from South Africa | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Cnidaria |
| Class: | Staurozoa |
| Order: | Stauromedusae |
| Suborder: | Myostaurida |
| Family: | Lipkeidae Vogt, 1887[1] |
| Genus: | Lipkea Vogt, 1886 |
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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]
Genera and Species
According to the World Register of Marine Species, there are only three described species in this family and genus:[3]
- Lipkea ruspoliana Vogt, 1886[4]
- Lipkea stephensoniCarlgren, 1933
- Lipkea sturdzi (Antipa, 1893)[5]
Distribution
According to the World Register of Marine Species
Gallery
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A Lipkea specimen with dense nematocyst clusters -
A cluster of Lipkea
References
- ^ "WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Lipkeidae Vogt, 1887". marinespecies.org. Retrieved 3 August 2013.
- PMID 27168970.
- ^ "WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Lipkea Vogt, 1886". marinespecies.org. Retrieved 3 August 2013.
- ^ a b Pisani, Valérie; Otero-Ferrer, Francisco; Lotto, Séverine; Maurel, Philippe; Goy, Jacqueline (2007). "LIPKEA RUSPOLIANA VOGT, 1887, (STAUROMEDUSA, SCYPHOZOA, CNIDARIA) DANS LES AQUARIUMS DU MUSÉE OCÉANOGRAPHIQUE DE MONACO" (PDF).
- ^ a b "Information system on scyphozoa, cubozoa, and staurozoa".
- ^ "World Register of Marine Species - Lipkea". Retrieved 2019-08-19.
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