Agalma (cnidarian)

Agalma
Agalma elegans at the Natural History Museum (National Museum of Ireland) in Dublin.
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Cnidaria
Class: Hydrozoa
Order: Siphonophorae
Family: Agalmatidae
Genus: Agalma
Eschscholtz, 1825[1]
Synonyms[2]
  • Agalmoides Fewkes, 1891
  • Agalmopsis Sars, 1846
  • Crystallodes Haeckel, 1869
  • Crystallomia Dana, 1858
  • Cuneolaria Chamisso & Eysenhardt, 1821

Agalma is a genus of siphonophores in the family Agalmatidae. Siphonophores are colonial hydrozoans that feed on zooplankton.[3]

Species

Agalma okenii 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. 1 2 Schuchert, P.; Choong, H.; Galea, H.; Hoeksema, B.; Lindsay, D.; Manko, M.; Pica, D. (2026). "World Hydrozoa Database. Agalma Eschscholtz, 1825". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 25 May 2026.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  3. ↑ 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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