Chiropsalmidae

Chiropsalmidae is a family of venomous box jellyfish within the class Cubozoa.^[1]

Chiropsalmidae
Chiropsalmus quadrigatus, side view of half-grown medusa. Drawn from a preserved specimen. A, enlarged side view of sense-club. B, inner side of sense-club. C, oral view of stomach showing the 4 lips and 8 gastric sacs. D, enlarged view of gastric cirri. E, side view of a pedalium with all but one of the tentacles cut across.
Chiropsalmus quadrumanus
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Cnidaria
Class:	Cubozoa
Order:	Chirodropida
Family:	Chiropsalmidae Thiel, 1936
Genera
See text

Genera

• Chiropsalmus Agassiz, 1862

• Chiropsalmus alipes Gershwin, 2006
• Chiropsalmus quadrumanus (F. Muller, 1859)

• Chiropsoides Southcott, 1956

• Chiropsoides buitendijki (van der Horst, 1907)