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{{Taxobox
| name = Crossota millsae
| image =
| image_width = 250px
| image_caption =
| regnum = [[Animal]]ia
| subregnum = [[Eumetazoa]]
| phylum = [[Cnidaria]]
| subphylum = [[Medusozoa]]
| classis = [[Hydrozoa]]
| subclassis = [[Trachylinae]]
| ordo = [[Trachymedusae]]
| familia = [[Rhopalonematidae]]
| genus = [[Crossota]]
| species = '''''C. millsae'''''
| binomial = ''Crossota millsae''
| binomial_authority = Thuesen, 2003
}}
'''''Crossota millsae''''' is a species of deep-sea jellyfish.<ref name="Thuesen2003">Thuesen, E. V. 2003. Crossota millsae (Cnidaria: Trachymedusae: Rhopalonematidae), a new species of viviparous hydromedusa from the deep sea off California and Hawaii. Zootaxa 309:1-12. http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2003f/zt00309.pdf</ref> Males and females have both been described, and it reproduces sexually. They are [[Vivipary|viviparous]] and females brood baby medusae attached to the gastric canals inside the sub-umbrellar space. 

==Distribution==
''Crossota millsae'' was first described from the Pacific Ocean off Hawaii and California.<ref name=Thuesen2003/> It was subsequently found in the Arctic Ocean.<ref>http://www.mpcfaculty.net/kevin_raskoff/arctic.htm</ref> It lives below 1 km depth in all three regions. Its highest abundance is found at 2500 m off California and 1250 m off Hawaii.

==Etymology==
It was named after Dr. Claudia Mills, a marine scientist at the [[Friday Harbor  Laboratories]].

== References ==
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[[Category:Hydrozoa]]