Agalma (cnidarian)
Genus of hydrozoans
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Agalma is a genus of siphonophores in the family Agalmatidae. Siphonophores are colonial hydrozoans that feed on zooplankton.[3]
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| 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] |
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Species
- Agalma clausi Bedot, 1888
- Agalma elegans (Sars, 1846)
- Agalma okenii Eschscholtz, 1825[2]
