Voragonema

Voragonema
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Cnidaria
Class: Hydrozoa
Order: Trachymedusae
Family: Rhopalonematidae
Genus: Voragonema
Naumov, 1971[1]
Species

Voragonema is a genus of jellyfish belonging to the family Rhopalonematidae. The genus comprises four species.[2] Unlike most hydromedusae, these jellyfish do not have a sessile stage. Rather, they spend their entire lives in the water column as plankton. Centripetal expansions protruding from the ring canal is a characteristic that separates this genus from other genera in the family Rhopalonematidae.

Species

References

  1. Naumov, D.V. (1971) Hydromedusae and scyphomedusae from the Kurile-Kamchatka trench. Trudy Institute Okeanology, 92, 9–17
  2. Lindsay, Dhugal & Francesc Pagès, 2010. "Voragonema tatsunoko (Trachymedusae: Rhopalonematidae) a new species of benthopelagic medusa, host to the hyperiid amphipod Mimonectes spandli (Physosomata: Mimonectidae)." Zootaxa 2671: 31-39.


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