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Arctapodema
Sign in to saveArctapodema is a genus of deep-sea hydrozoans in the family Rhopalonematidae.
Species
ヒゲクラゲ属
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumCnidaria
- ClassHydrozoa
- OrderTrachymedusae
- FamilyRhopalonematidae
Habitatmarine
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 23
- With media
- 100
- Family
- Rhopalonematidae
- Collections
- USNM, NHMUK
- Recorded in
- United States, Congo, The Democratic Republic Of The
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Rhopalonematidae
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- taxon name
- Arctapodema
- taxon rank
- genus
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Encyclopedic overview
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Arctapodema is a genus of deep-sea hydrozoans in the family Rhopalonematidae.
==Description== All Arctapodema species are characterized by a small hemispherical bell of up to 23 mm in diameter. Furthermore, they are characterized by four simple lips, no gastric peduncle, eight narrow radial canals with gonads on them that are adjacent to the manubrium, numerous alike tentacles in a single row, and free club-shaped marginal statocysts.
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