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Winged Box Jellyfish

Alatina alata

Classification

Class
Cubozoa

Alatina alata (Reynaud, 1830), often called a sea wasp, is a species of box jellyfish found in the Pacific, Indian and Atlantic Oceans and in the Caribbean and Arabian Sea. Ecology Alatina alata is mostly observed in shallow near shore waters in tropical and subtropical climate, but also occurs offshore in deeper ocean waters. Live medusae collected had hyperiidae amphipods in their subumbrella and some had small carid shrimps and euphausiids in the gut or subumbrella.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog
United States of America · 9Cuba · 8France · 7Mexico · 4United Kingdom · 2Netherlands · 1