Calpasoma
Genus of hydrozoans
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Calpasoma is a genus of freshwater hydrozoans in the family Olindiidae. Like all members of that family, they have a polyp phase and a medusa phase. The genus is monotypic, including only the species Calpasoma dactylopterum.[1] Calpasoma has been reported living in fresh water in North America.[2]
| Calpasoma | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Cnidaria |
| Class: | Hydrozoa |
| Order: | Limnomedusae |
| Family: | Olindiidae |
| Genus: | Calpasoma Fuhrmann, 1939 |
| Species: | C. dactylopterum |
| Binomial name | |
| Calpasoma dactylopterum Fuhrmann, 1939 | |