Biology:Agalma (siphonophore)

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Short description: Genus of hydrozoans

Agalma
Agalma elegans - NHMI.jpg
Agalma elegans at the Natural History Museum (National Museum of Ireland) in Dublin.
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Cnidaria
Class: Hydrozoa
Order: Siphonophorae
Family: Agalmatidae
Genus: Agalma
Eschscholtz, 1825[1]
Synonyms
  • Agalmopsis Sars, 1846

Agalma is a genus of siphonophores in the family Agalmatidae. Siphonophores are colonial hydrozoans that feed on zooplankton.[2]

Species

Agalma okeni on a 1995 stamp from Azerbaijan

References

  1. Bericht uber die zoologische Ausbeute der Reise von Kronstadt bis St.-Peter und Paul. F Eschscholtz, Oken's Isis, 1825
  2. 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