Biology:Agalma (cnidarian)
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Short description: Genus of hydrozoans
| Agalma | |
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| Agalma elegans at the Natural History Museum (National Museum of Ireland) in Dublin. | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Cnidaria |
| Class: | Hydrozoa |
| Order: | Siphonophorae |
| Family: | Agalmatidae |
| Genus: | Agalma Eschscholtz, 1825[1] |
| Synonyms | |
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Agalma is a genus of siphonophores in the family Agalmatidae. Siphonophores are colonial hydrozoans that feed on zooplankton.[2]
Species
- Agalma clausi Bedot, 1888
- Agalma elegans (Sars, 1846)
- Agalma okeni Eschscholtz, 1825

References
- ↑ Bericht uber die zoologische Ausbeute der Reise von Kronstadt bis St.-Peter und Paul. F Eschscholtz, Oken's Isis, 1825
- ↑ Uribe-Palomino, Julian; López, Raúl; Gibbons, Mark J.; Gusmão, Felipe; Richardson, Anthony J. (Feb 2019). "Siphonophores from surface waters of the Colombian Pacific Ocean" (in en). Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 99 (1): 67–80. doi:10.1017/S0025315417002065. ISSN 0025-3154. https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S0025315417002065/type/journal_article.
External links
Wikidata ☰ Q3384922 entry
