Editing Box jellyfish (section)

== Taxonomy and systematics ==
Historically, cubozoans were classified as an order of [[Scyphozoa]] until 1973, when they were put in their own class due to their unique biological cycle (lack of [[strobilation]]) and morphology.<ref name="Avian2021">{{cite book | last1=Avian | first1=Massimo | last2=Ramšak | first2=Andreja | editor-last=Schierwater | editor-first=Bernd | editor-last2=DeSalle | editor-first2=Rob | title=Invertebrate Zoology: A Tree of Life Approach | publisher=CRC Press | year=2021 | chapter=Chapter 10: Phylum Cnidaria: classes Scyphozoa, Cubzoa and Staurozoa | isbn=978-1-4822-3582-1 }}</ref>

At least 51 species of box jellyfish were known as of 2018.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=135219 |title=WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Cubozoa|website=marinespecies.org|language=en|access-date=2018-03-19}}</ref> These are grouped into two [[Order (biology)|orders]] and eight [[Family (biology)|families]].<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Bentlage B, Cartwright P, Yanagihara AA, Lewis C, Richards GS, Collins AG | title = Evolution of box jellyfish (Cnidaria: Cubzoa), a group of highly toxic invertebrates | journal = Proceedings. Biological Sciences | volume = 277 | issue = 1680 | pages = 493–501 | date = February 2010 | pmid = 19923131 | pmc = 2842657 | doi = 10.1098/rspb.2009.1707 }}</ref> A few new species have since been described, and it is likely that additional [[undescribed species]] remain.<ref name="Cyamaguchii" /><ref name="Cbranchi" /><ref name="Cbart" />

'''Cubozoa''' represents the smallest [[cnidaria]]n class with approximately 50 species.<ref>{{Cite report |last1=Holland |first1=Brenden |last2=Khramov |first2=Marat |last3=Crites |first3=Jennifer |title=Box Jellyfish (Cubozoa: Carybdeida) in Hawaiian Waters, and the First Record of Tripedalia cystophora in Hawai'i |url=https://www.academia.edu/9224340 |language=en}}</ref>{{better source needed|date=March 2022}}

Class '''Cubzoa'''
* Order [[Carybdeida]]
** Family [[Alatinidae]]
** Family [[Carukiidae]]
** Family [[Carybdeidae]]
** Family [[Tamoyidae]]
** Family [[Tripedaliidae]]
* Order [[Chirodropida]]
** Family [[Chirodropidae]]
** Family [[Chiropsalmidae]]
** Family [[Chiropsellidae]]