Kyopoda is a genus of stalked jellyfish, It has only one species in the genus, Kyopoda lamberti, and is in turn the only genus in the family Kyopodiidiae. The species was described from British Columbia and California and placed in a new genus and family since it did not have the stomach and sex organs in the usual structure known as the calyx but in a sac at the base of the stalk of its worm-like body that is no smaller than 2 cm in length when fully developed. The mouth is a squarish bone with which the jaw jointed in a similar way as the incus of the middle ear in mammals; its lips frilled with tiny hairs. It has 8 adjacent capitate tentacles that are located near the calyx which is short with no arm lobes. The outer tentacles have gland cells about half way down facing away from the c