Copula sivickisi
| Copula sivickisi | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Cnidaria |
| Class: | Cubozoa |
| Order: | Carybdeida |
| Family: | Tripedaliidae |
| Genus: | Copula Bentlage, Cartwright, Yanagihara, Lewis, Richards & Collins, 2010 |
| Species: | C. sivickisi |
| Binomial name | |
| Copula sivickisi (Stiasny, 1926) | |
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Copula is a monotypic genus of box jellyfish in the family Tripedaliidae of the phylum Cnidaria. The only species in the genus is Copula sivickisi, a very small gelatinous, bell-shaped jellyfish with four tentacles that is active only at night. It is unusual among box jellyfish in having a mating ritual and internal fertilization. Its scientific name honours the Lithuanian zoologist Pranciškus Baltrus Šivickis.
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