Cuninidae

Cuninidae is a family of jellyfish in the order Narcomedusae.

Characteristics

Members of this family have dome-shaped bells and tentacles set above the undulating margin of the bell. There are gastric pouches containing the gonads situated in line with the tentacles, the number of pouches being the same as the number of tentacles. The pouches do not extend below the points of origin of the primary tentacles. Members of some genera have a peripheral canal system and others do not. There are no radial canals or secondary tentacles.^[2]

Genera and species

The World Register of Marine Species lists the following genera and species:^[1]

• Cunina Eschscholtz, 1829
  • Cunina becki Bouillon, 1985
  • Cunina duplicata Maas, 1893
  • Cunina fowleri (Browne, 1906)
  • Cunina frugifera Kramp, 1948
  • Cunina globosa Eschscholtz, 1829
  • Cunina lativentris Gegenbaur, 1856
  • Cunina octonaria McCrady, 1857
  • Cunina peregrina Bigelow, 1909
  • Cunina polygonia (Haeckel, 1879)
  • Cunina proboscidea E. & L. Metschnikoff, 1871
  • Cunina simplex Gili, Bouillon, Pagès, Palanques, Puig & Heussner, 1998
  • Cunina tenella (Bigelow, 1909)
  • Cunina vitrea Gegenbaur, 1856
• Sigiweddellia Bouillon, Pagès & Gili, 2001
  • Sigiweddellia benthopelagica Bouillon, Pagès & Gili, 2001
• Solmissus
  • Solmissus albescens (Gegenbaur, 1856)
  • Solmissus incisa (Fewkes, 1886)
  • Solmissus marshalli Agassiz & Mayer, 1902

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