Agalma (cnidarian)
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| Agalma elegans at the Natural History Museum (National Museum of Ireland) in Dublin. | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Cnidaria |
| Class: | Hydrozoa |
| Order: | Siphonophorae |
| Family: | Agalmatidae |
| Genus: | Agalma Eschscholtz, 1825[1] |
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Agalma is a genus of siphonophores in the family Agalmatidae. Siphonophores are colonial hydrozoans that feed on zooplankton.[2]
Species
[edit]- Agalma clausi Bedot, 1888
- Agalma elegans (Sars, 1846)
- Agalma okeni Eschscholtz, 1825
References
[edit]- ^ 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". Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom. 99 (1): 67–80. doi:10.1017/S0025315417002065. hdl:10566/3529. ISSN 0025-3154.
External links
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