Feather Plume Hydroid

Aglaophenia latecarinata

Classification

Class: Hydrozoa
Order: Leptothecata
Family: Aglaopheniidae

Aglaophenia latecarinata, the feather plume hydroid, is a colonial hydrozoan species in the family Aglaopheniidae. This species was first described by Irish zoologist George Allman in 1877. Description Aglaophenia latecarinata forms delicate, branching colonies that are characteristic of the genus Aglaophenia.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog

United States of America · 12United Kingdom · 7Mexico · 1

Sources and credits

Photo(c) Thomas Irvine, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY DescriptionAglaophenia latecarinata, Wikipedia contributors

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