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Common Siphonophore

Nanomia bijuga

Classification

Nanomia bijuga is a species of siphonophores in the family Agalmatidae, a colonial organism like other siphonophores, which possess specialized zooids such as the jet-propulsive nectophores. They can be found in coastal and open-ocean environments in the North Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, occupying the epipelagic and the mesopelagic zones of the ocean. N.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog
Spain · 37France · 6