Voragonema

Voragonema
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Cnidaria
Class:	Hydrozoa
Order:	Trachymedusae
Family:	Rhopalonematidae
Genus:	Voragonema; Naumov, 1971
Species
	Voragonema laciniata; Voragonema pedunculata; Voragonema profundicola; Voragonema tatsunoko;

Voragonema is a genus of hydrozoans belonging to the family Rhopalonematidae. The genus comprises four species.^[2] Unlike most hydromedusae, these 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

^ Naumov, D.V. (1971) Hydromedusae and scyphomedusae from the Kurile-Kamchatka trench. Trudy Institute Okeanology, 92, 9–17
^ 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.

World Register of Marine Species.

This Hydrozoa-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

[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.

[1]

[2]