Chirodropus palmatus

Chirodropus palmatus is a species of box jellyfish. It is one of two species belonging to the genus Chirodropus.^[1]

Chirodropus palmatus
Chirodropus palmatus is in the center of the image.
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Cnidaria
Class:	Cubozoa
Order:	Chirodropida
Family:	Chirodropidae
Genus:	Chirodropus
Species:	C. palmatus
Binomial name
Chirodropus palmatus Haeckel, 1880

Taxonomy

Recent studies showed that Chirodropus palmatus shares several distinctive physical features with the Chiropsalmidae jellyfish: pendant perradial gastric saccules and leaf-like, interradial lateral gonads.^[2]