Chiropsellidae, Toshino, Sho, Miyake, Hiroshi & Shibata, Haruka, 2015

Toshino, Sho, Miyake, Hiroshi & Shibata, Haruka, 2015, Meteoronakishinouyei, a new family, genus and species (Cnidaria, Cubozoa, Chirodropida) from Japanese Waters, ZooKeys 503, pp. 1-21 : 5

publication ID	https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.503.9047
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persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/7690E036-F8BD-4B62-A7BB-EF9DD1D6DE87
taxon LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:act:7690E036-F8BD-4B62-A7BB-EF9DD1D6DE87
treatment provided by	ZooKeys by Pensoft
scientific name	Chiropsellidae
status	fam. n.

Treatment

Taxon classification Animalia Chirodropida

Family Chiropsellidae View in CoL fam. n.

Family diagnosis.

Chirodropida with unbranched gastric saccules. Gastric phacellae V-shaped or horseshoe shaped. Sensory niches U-shaped, with medial flap on upper rhopaliar scale. Pedalial canal bend slight volcano or knee-shaped. Pedalia four, branched with 5 to 11 tentacles or unbranched with one tentacle.

Type genus.

Chiropsella Gershwin, 2006.

Chiropsella bronzie Gershwin, 2006: 25-36, pl. 4-6.

Chiropsella bart Gershwin & Alderslade, 2006: 15-21, figs 1-4.

Chiropsella rudloei Bentlage, 2013: 1-7, figs 1-3.