Agalma (siphonophore)

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

Agalma
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
  • Agalmopsis Sars, 1846

Species

  • Agalma clausi Bedot, 1888
  • Agalma elegans (Sars, 1846)
  • Agalma okeni Eschscholtz, 1825
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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