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| | Systematics of Cubozoa, by UCMP |
 | | The phylogenetic position of Cubozoa within Cnidaria has been the subject of a great deal of debate. | | | However, UCMP graduate student Lisa-ann Gershwin is working on just such an analysis as part of her dissertation. | | | However, when it was observed that the cubozoan polyp and life cycle were rather different than those of scyphozoans, Cubozoa was placed on its own. |
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http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/cnidaria/cubozoasy.html
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| | Cnidaria |
| | Thus, it is reasoned, the polyp evolved secondarily, and loss of the original body form, the medusa, places Anthozoa as the most derived taxon (Fig. | | | Morphological, mtDNA, and 18S rDNA data separately and together also support the basal position of Anthozoa but do not resolve the relationships among Scyphozoa, Cubozoa and Hydrozoa (Bridge et al. | | | The other three classes -- Cubozoa, Hydrozoa, and Scyphozoa -- are often grouped as the "Medusozoa" because the medusa phase is present in them all. |
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http://tolweb.org/tree?group=Cnidaria&contgroup=Animals
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| | Cnidaria - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Within group Anthozoa, the medusal stage is virtually non-existent; the larva, once fusing with the substratum and developing into the polyp stage, grows benthic or sessile, meaning it no longer metamorphosises into the medusal stage. | | | Among the Scyphozoa and Cubozoa, the medusae are the dominant form in the life-cycle, while the polyps are in turn reduced or absent. | | | Medusae are extremely varied and range in size from a few millimeters to over 30 metres (with tentacles). |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cnidaria
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| | jellyfish -- Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - The online encyclopedia you can trust! |
| | The term is also frequently applied to certain other cnidarians that have a medusoid (bell- or saucer-shaped) body form, as, for example, the... | | | The term is also frequently applied to certain other cnidarians that have a medusoid (bell- or saucer-shaped) body form, as, for example, the hydromedusae and the siphonophores (including the Portuguese man-of-war), as well as to such unrelated forms as comb jellies and salps. | | | The class Cubozoa contains only one order, Cubomedusae, which some biologists still place under the class Scyphozoa. |
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http://www.britannica.com/ebc/article-9043510
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| | phyla CNIDARIA and CTENOPHORA |
| | Moreover, there is no doubt that the scheme presented below will be subject to considerable change in future years. | | | class Cubozoa (Some workers include these in class Scyphozoa) |
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http://inside.msj.edu/academics/faculty/davisr/potpouri/cnidaria.htm
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| | Z250 - Ctenophora & Cnidaria Clades (2005) |
| | $Molecular data suggest Anthozoa are the sister group to the Medusozoa (=Hydrozoa + Cubozoa + Scyphozoa) and some morphological data support this relationship (Martindale et al. | | | Return to Zool 250 Home Page or try your skill at the Invertebrate Diversity Quiz. |
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http://www.biology.ualberta.ca/courses.hp/zool250/Clades/clade04-Cnidaria.htm
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| | MavicaNET - Cubozoa |
| | Biology, body structure, fossil record, life history, systematics and ecology of box jellies, Cubozoa, with images and pictures. | | | Katalog / Natur / Liv / Djur / Corals, jellyfish, Hydra (Cnidaria) / Cubozoa | | | Here's the scoop on the deadly sea wasp of Australia, from a site devoted to a variety of poisonous plants and animals. |
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http://www.mavicanet.com/lite/swe/7117.html
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| | Encyclopedia: Animal |
| | The tiny phylum Placozoa is similar, but individuals do not have a permanent digestive chamber. | | | Species About 120; see text Anemone (Anemone) (from the Gr. | | | Binomial name Trichoplax adhaerens F.E. von Schultze, 1883 Trichoplax adhaerens is a simple balloon-like marine animal with a body cavity filled with pressurized fluid. |
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http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Animal
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| | Welcome to Marine-Medic.com.au - Venomous Marine Animals - Glossary of Terms. |
| | Common in non-tropical areas such as Western Australia and South Australia, the sting is usually mild, but occasionally may cause severe skin pain. | | | This jellyfish group causes more morbidity and mortality than any other in the world does. | | | Cubozoa - The taxonomic class of box-shaped jellyfish consisting both of chirodropids and carybdeids. |
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http://www.marine-medic.com.au/pages/glossary.html
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| | Rhopalial lappet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | They include specialized structures for sensing light (ocelli), or movement or direction with respect to gravity (statoliths). | | | The 'eyes' are most complex in the Cubozoa, resembling the image-forming eyes of squid, octopuses, and vertebrates. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhopalial_lappet
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| | math lessons - Medusa (biology) |
| | In the class Hydrozoa medusae are the sexual individuals of many species, alternating in the life cycle with asexual polyps, but in Scyphozoa (or jellyfishes proper) and Cubozoa the medusa alone is well developed. |
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http://www.mathdaily.com/lessons/Medusa_%28biology%29
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| | Schuchert 1993b |
| | Within this sister group the Scyphozoa and Cubozoa were seen as sistergroups to each other. | | | For the ground plan of the Cnidaria the following characters were postulated: triphasic life cycle consisting of a planula larva, a benthic polyp stage, and a sexually propagating medusa like stage. | | | The Ctenophora were seen as the most probable sister group of the Cnidaria. |
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http://pages.unibas.ch/dib/zoologie/research/schmid/abstracts/schuchert93b.html
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| | Cubozoa |
| | The box jellies are sufficiently distinct to be placed in their own class, Cubozoa. | | | Phylum Cnidaria / Class Cubozoa / Family Carybdeidae | | | Befitting the name of the group, the bell of these primarily tropical jellies is indeed somewhat cuboidal with 4 flattened sides. |
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http://jellieszone.com/cubozoa.htm
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| | Jellyfish: A Dangerous Ocean Organism of Hawaii |
| | The term, jellyfish, is also often used in referring to certain other cnidarians that have a medusoid (saucer- or bell-shaped) body form, such as hydromedusae, the siphonophores (including even the | | | Most live for only a few weeks, although some are known to survive a year or longer. | | | Chironex and Chiropsalmus, occur widely from Queensland, Australia (from Exmouth in Western Australia to Gladstone in Queensland from November to May) northward to about Malaya. |
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http://www.aloha.com/~lifeguards/jelyfish.html
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| | Class Cubozoa |
| | The planula (larvae form) buds off into a single cubomedusa, so called because its swimming cups are cuboidal instead of spherical. | | | Cubozoa, a minor class within Phylum Cnidaria, are uncommon and can only be found in tropical or subtropical waters. |
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http://www.cartage.org.lb/en/themes/Sciences/Zoology/Animalclassification/Polygenetic/phylogenetictree/Cnidaria/ClassCubozoa.htm
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| | Medusozoa - Phylogeny of the Cubozoa |
| | Currently, there are essentially only 2 molecular phylogenetic hypotheses of the Cubozoa, both based on 18S rRNA in Collins (2002). | | | One is analyzed with Maximum Parsimony, and the other (included herein, lower figure) is based on Maximum Likelihood. | | | However, please note that it is simply based on the classification presented by P.L. Kramp (1961: Synopsis of the Medusae of the World, J. Mar. Biol. |
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http://www.medusozoa.com/cubo_phylog.html
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| | Organism of the Month: July - The Sea Wasp (Box Jellyfish) |
| | It is also often used in referring to other cnidarians that have a medusoid (saucer- or bell-shaped) body form, such as hydromedusae and the siphonophores (including the Portuguese man-of-war. | | | Jellyfish comprise any planktonic marine member of a group of invertebrate animals composed of about 200 described species of the class Scyphozoa (phylum Cnidaria) or of the class Cubozoa, which was formerly considered an order of Scyphozoa. | | | Sea Wasps belong to the class Cubozoa, order Cubomedusae, and include the genera Chironex and Chiropsalmus, It is found in coastal waters, creeks, and rivers in Australia from November to mid-March, northwards from about 22-degrees south latitude and occurs widely from Queensland northwards to about Malaya. |
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http://www.personal.dundee.ac.uk/~amjones/seawasp.htm
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| | Cubomedusae |
| | Recent molecular data, however, raised a paradox in that Class Cubozoa was more closely related than Order Stauromedusae to the other scyphozoan orders Coronatae, Semaeostomeae, and Rhizostomeae, i.e. | | | In the mid-1970's, however, they were given the status of a class (Cubozoa Werner 1975; see also Mianzan and Cornelius 1999) on the basis of morphological differences. | | | This issue has now been resolved with elevation of stauromedusae to Class Staurozoa (e.g. |
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http://www.aquamarine.unsw.edu.au/tS/Systematics/Cubozoa/Cubomedusae.html
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| | Gershwin |
| | However, perhaps no taxon is more in need of taxonomic revision than is the Cubozoa, which comprises some of the world's deadliest creatures. | | | The deadly box jellyfish has long been feared for its rapidly lethal sting, but recently a new name has become associated with agony and death: Irukandji. | | | Jellyfishes the world over are poorly known taxonomically, and Australia is no exception. |
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http://www.jcu.edu.au/school/mbiolaq/ind_labs/reef&ocean/profiles-site/gershwin.htm
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| | Fish and Plant Groups and Species Sites |
| | Scyphozoans include most of the jellyfish familiar to beach-goers; other similar organisms are classified in the Hydozoa and Cubozoa, two other groups of cnidarians. | | | The IBC Species Maintenance Program is a clearinghouse and resource center for all existing available information on Betta species, promotes continued research to learn as much as we can about these species and their needs, provides stock cataloging, breeder networking and offers judging guidance. |
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http://www.petsforum.com/was/species.html
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| | : Zoology/Class_Cubozoa |
| | Introduction to the Cubozoa - Information and links relative to the cubozoans, or box jellies. |
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| | [Cnidaria] Fire Jellyfish |
| | Jane, if any specimens are retained, I would be interested in identifying and studying them. | | | I have recently completed a comprehensive revision of the Cubozoa of the World (to be published shortly), and I was unable to study very many specimens from your area. | | | It would be extremely useful to me adn to the monograph to know what species you have, especially if they are harmful. |
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http://maillists.uci.edu/mailman/public/cnidaria/2002-August/000213.html
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| | M38.htm |
| | Many corals, however, do not take part in reef formation, and some forms are solitary polyps. | | | The Class Cubozoa are popularly known as "box jellyfish " or sea wasps, and include some of the most venomous marine organisms known. | | | Relatively small and transparent, the medusa has a four sided "square" appearance. |
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http://www.meer.org/M38.htm
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| | MSN Encarta - Print Preview - Cnidarians |
| | Cubozoa consists of about 20 species of sea wasps and their relatives. | | | The nematocyst sting of some cubozoans, including the Australian sea wasp Chironex fleckeri, contains poison that can be fatal to humans. | | | Scientists divide cnidarians into four classes: Hydrozoa, Scyphozoa, Cubozoa, and Anthozoa. |
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http://encarta.msn.com/text_761562576___12/Cnidarians.html
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| | Class Cubozoa |
| | Cubozoa, a minor class consisting of about 20 species within Phylum Cnidaria, are uncommon and can only be found in tropical or subtropical waters. | | | They are closely related to jellyfish — in the class of scyphozoans. |
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http://www.sidwell.edu/us/science/vlb6/labs/Classification_Lab/Eukarya/Animalia/Cnidaria/Cubozoa
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| | Question set 20 |
| | How does a single planula larva produce so many medusae in the Scyphozoa and Cubozoa? | | | How does the life cycle of a scyphozoan differ from that of hydrozoans? | | | How does a hydroid polyp differ from an anthozoan polyp? |
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http://www.umesci.maine.edu/biology/inv/q20.htm
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| | The Cubozoan -- Chironex fleckeri |
| | Medusae are then flushed out into the near shore waters. | | | Click on the buttons below to find out more about Cubozoa. |
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http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/cnidaria/Chironex.html
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| | cubozoa - OneLook Dictionary Search |
| | You might try using the wildcards * and ? | | | Sorry, no dictionaries indexed in the selected category contain the word cubozoa. | | | If you're sure it's a word, try doing a general web search for cubozoa: Google, AltaVista |
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http://onelook.com/?w=cubozoa&ls=a
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| | Cubozoa |
| | Also known as box jellyfish because of square shape | | | Some consider Cubozoa to be a subdivison of Scyphozoa |
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http://www4.d25.k12.id.us/phs/biology/wckcubozoa.html
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| | Class Hydrozoa; Class Cubozoa; Class Scyphozoa; Class Anthozoa |
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| | [Cnidaria] Refefences request |
| | Igor Kosevitch schrieb: >Can antbody help me with a full reference on Werner's paper: >Werner B. Die neue Cnidariaklasse Cubozoa. |
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http://maillists.uci.edu/mailman/public/cnidaria/2003-November/000695.html
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| | Trabalhos publicados |
| | "Morbakka" syndrome: first report of envenomation by Cubozoa in Brazil. | | | Morandini, A.C. Deep-Sea medusae (Cnidaria: Cubozoa, Hydrozoa and Scyphozoa) from the coast of Bahia (western South Atlantic, Brazil). | | | Cnidome of Chiropsalmus quadrumanus (Cnidaria, Cubozoa) from Brazil. |
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| | Biology |
| | The CIESM atlas: new exotic species is the first attempt to provide a comprehensive, group by group, survey of recent marine 'immigrants' in the Mediterranean. | | | Links to information about cnidaria (jellyfish / jelly fish) biology, including anthozoa, cubozoa, hydrozoa and scyphozoa. | | | The Comprehensive Microbial Resource [CMR] allows access to data from all microbial genome sequences completed to date. |
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| | Class Cubozoa - Details - Systema Naturae 2000 |
| | Werner, B. Bau und Lebensgeschichte des Polypen von Tripedalia cystophora (Cubozoa, class. | | | Class Cubozoa - Details - Systema Naturae 2000 |
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