Linantha
{{Short description|Genus of jellyfishes}}
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| parent_authority = Haeckel, 1880{{cite WoRMS |author=van der Land, Jacob |year=2018 |title=Linantha |id=267555 |accessdate=20 June 2018 }}
| species = lunulata
| authority = Haeckel, 1880{{cite WoRMS |author=van der Land, Jacob |year=2018 |title=Linantha lunulata Haeckel, 1880 |id=290299 |accessdate=20 June 2018 }}
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Linantha is a genus of crown jellyfish in the family Linuchidae. It is a monotypic genus and the only species is Linantha lunulata which was first described by the German biologist Ernst Haeckel in 1880. It is found in the tropical eastern Pacific Ocean in the vicinity of the Galápagos Islands.
Description
The medusae of Linantha lunulata can be distinguished from other crown jellyfish medusae by having four inter-radial gonads shaped like horseshoes, and no subumbrella.{{cite web |url=http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~ghale/pdf/scyphozoa.pdf |title=The Classification and Distribution of the Class Scyphozoa |author=Hale, Garron |year=1999 |accessdate=20 June 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120219193848/http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~ghale/pdf/scyphozoa.pdf |archive-date=19 February 2012 |url-status=dead }}
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Category:Animals described in 1880
Category:Taxa named by Ernst Haeckel
Category:Monotypic cnidarian genera
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