Gymnangium expansum
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| Gymnangium expansum | |
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| specimen RMNH.COEL.P.9240, collected in the Bali Sea at a depth of 570-545 m (Naturalis Biodiversity Center) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Cnidaria |
| Class: | Hydrozoa |
| Order: | Leptothecata |
| Family: | Aglaopheniidae |
| Genus: | Gymnangium |
| Species: | G. expansum |
| Binomial name | |
| Gymnangium expansum (Jäderholm, 1903) | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Halicornaria expansa Jäderholm, 1903 | |
Gymnangium expansum is a species of hydrozoan in the family, Aglaopheniidae,[2][1] first described in 1903 by Axel Elof Jäderholm as Halicornaria expansa,[2][3]
GBIF data show it as being found in both the north and south of the western Pacific Ocean.[4]