Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Cnidaria > Subphylum Medusozoa > Class Hydrozoa > Subclass Hydroidolina > Order Siphonophorae > Suborder Physonectae > Family Agalmatidae > Genus Agalma

Agalma elegans (M. Sars, 1846)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Original genus

Agalmopsis Sars, 1846

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Agalma*	Eschscholtz, 1825	accepted genus name
*Agalmopsis*	Sars, 1846	synonym

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Japanese: ナガヨウラククラゲ

Literature

additional source	Pugh, P. R. & Gasca, R. (2009). Siphonophorae (Cnidaria) of the Gulf of Mexico. Pp. 395–402. In: Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas.
additional source	Dunn, C. W.; Pugh, P. R.; Haddock, S. H. D. (2005). Molecular phylogenetics of the Siphonophora (Cnidaria), with implications for the evolution of functional specialisation. Syst. Biol. 54(6): 916-935.
additional source	Totton, A. K. 1955. Development and metamorphosis of the larva of Agalma elegans (Sars) (Siphonophora Physonectae). In “Papers in Marine Biology and Oceanography”. Edited by M. Graham. Deep-Sea Res. 3 (Suppl): 239-241.
additional source	Trott, T. J. (2004). Cobscook Bay inventory: a historical checklist of marine invertebrates spanning 162 years. Northeastern Naturalist. 11, 261-324.
additional source	Jacobs, W. 1937. Staatsquallen. Nat. Volk (Frank.) 67 (10): 465-473
additional source	Pugh, P. R. (1999). Siphonophorae. In South Atlantic Zooplankton I. Edited by D. Boltovskoy. Backhuys Publishers, Leiden, The Netherlands. 1-868.
additional source	Fewkes J.W. (1881b). Studies of the Jelly-fishes of Narragansett Bay. Bulletin of the Museum of comparative Zoölogy of Harvard College. 8: 141-182, pls 1-10.
additional source	Linkletter, L. E. (1977). A checklist of marine fauna and flora of the Bay of Fundy. Huntsman Marine Laboratory, St. Andrews, N.B. 68: p.
additional source	Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. China Science Press. 1267 pp.
additional source	Cairns, S.D., L. Gershwin, F.J. Brook, P. Pugh, E.W. Dawson, O.V. Ocaña, W. Vervoort, G. Williams, J.E. Watson, D.M. Opresko, P. Schuchert, P.M. Hine, D.P. Gordon, H.I. Campbell, A.J. Wright, J.A.Sánchez & D.G. Fautin. (2009). Phylum Cnidaria: corals, medusae, hydroids, myxozoans. in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 1. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. :59-101.
additional source	Bigelow H.B. (1911c). The Siphonophorae. Reports of the scientific research expedition to the tropical Pacific. Albatross XXIII. Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. 38: 173-401, 32 pls.
additional source	Shih, C.T., 1977. A guide to the Jellyfish of Canadian Atlantic waters. National Museum of Natural Sciences, Natural History Series 5 : 1-190.
additional source	Calder, D. (2003). Checklist of Hydroids, hydromedusae and siphonophores reported from the Bay of Fundy.
additional source	Totton, A. K. (1954). Siphonophora of the Indian Ocean together with systematic and biological notes on related specimens from other oceans. Discovery Rep. 27: 1-162.
ecology source	Kawamura, T. 1911c. “Shidarezakura Kurage” and “Nagayoraku Kurage” (Cupulita picta, Metschnikoff, and Agalmopsis elegans, Sars). Zool. Mag. (Tokyo) (Dobuts. Zhasshi) 23 (7): 359-363, plate 7 (In Japanese).

Genbank

Citation

Schuchert, P.; Choong, H.; Galea, H.; Hoeksema, B.; Lindsay, D.; Manko, M.; Pica, D. (2025). World Hydrozoa Database. Agalma elegans (M. Sars, 1846). Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:135484