Crown jellyfish

Crown jellyfishes
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Cnidaria
Class:	Scyphozoa
Order:	Coronatae Vanhöffen, 1892
Families
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Crown jellyfishes are the eight families of jellyfish that belong to the order Coronatae. They are distinguished from other jellyfish by the presence of a deep groove running around the umbrella, giving them the crown shape from which they take their name. Many of the species in the order inhabit deep sea environments.^[1]

Families

• Atollidae
• Atorellidae
• Collaspididae
• Linuchidae
• Nausithoidae
• Paraphyllinidae
• Periphyllidae
• Tetraplatidae

References

1. ^ Barnes, Robert D. (1982). Invertebrate Zoology. Philadelphia, PA: Holt-Saunders International. p. 149. ISBN 0-03-056747-5. 

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