Agalmatidae

Nanomia clara

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Physonectae
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Phylum: Cnidaria Classis: Hydrozoa Subclassis: Hydroidolina Ordo: Siphonophora Subordo: Physonectae

Familia: Agalmatidae
Genera (9): Agalma – Athorybia – Frillagalma – Halistemma – Lychnagalma – Marrus – Melophysa – Nanomia – Rudjakovia

Name

• Agalmatidae Brandt, 1834

Type genus: Agalma Eschscholtz, 1825, by monotypy.

Combinations

• Agalmidae Brandt, 1834: 234 [original combination, as subfamilia]
• Agalmatidae — Poche, 1914: 81 [nomen novum, emended spelling]

Synonyms

• Athorybiadae Huxley, 1858: 86 [original spelling, later corrected to Athorybiidae]

Type genus: Athorybia Eschscholtz, 1829, by monotypy.

References

Primary references

• Brandt, J.F. 1834–1835. Prodromus descriptionis animalium ab H. Mertensio in orbis terrarum circumnavigatione observatorum. Fascic. I., Polypos, Acalephas Discophoras et Siphonophoras, nec non Echinodermata continens. Recueil Actes des séances publiques de l'Acadadémie impériale des Science de St. Pétersbourg 1834: 201–275. BHL
• Huxley, T.H. 1859. The oceanic Hydrozoa: a description of the Calycophoridae and Physophoridae observed during the voyage of H.M.S. "Rattlesnake", in the years 1846-50. Ray Society: London. BHL
• Mańko, M.K. & Pugh, P.R. 2018. Agalma clausi (Bedot, 1888) (Siphonophora: Physonectae)—complementary description with notes on species distribution and ecology. Zootaxa 4441(2): 311–337. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4441.2.7 Reference page. 
• Poche, F. 1914. Das System der Coelenterata. Archiv für Naturgeschichte 80: 47–128. BHL

Links

• Agalmatidae in the World Register of Marine Species

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