Agalma (cnidarian)

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

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

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Species

Agalma okeni on a 1995 stamp from Azerbaijan Stamps of Azerbaijan, 1995-320.jpg
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" . Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom. 99 (1): 67–80. doi:10.1017/S0025315417002065. hdl: 10566/3529 . ISSN   0025-3154.
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