Agalmatidae: Brief Summary
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Agalmatidae, or Agalmidae, is a family of siphonophores.
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Diagnosis
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Physonectae with a biserial arrangement of nectophores in the nectosome, nectophores on the nectosome are budded off, with the exception of Athorybia which lacks them, on the dorsal side of the stem; the pallial canal consists of ascending and descending branches; the colonies are monoecious.
- Schuchert, P.
- Pugh, P. R. 2006. The taxonomic status of the genus Moseria (Siphonophora, Physonectae). Zootaxa 26: 1-42.
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