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

Lychnagalma Haeckel, 1888

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Lychnagalma utricularia (Claus, 1879)

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Japanese: ヤツイトクラゲ属

Literature

original description	Haeckel, E. (1888). System der Siphonophoren auf phylogenetischer Grundlage entworfen. Jenaische Zeitschrift für Naturwissenschaft. 22: 1-46.
additional source	Haeckel, E. (1888). Report on the Siphonophorae. Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873–76. Zoology. 28 (part 77): i-viii, 1-380, pl. 1-50.
redescription	Pugh, P.R. & Harbison, G.R. 1986. New observations on a rare physonect siphonophore, Lychnagalma utricularia (Claus, 1879). Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 66, 695-710.

Genbank

Citation

Schuchert, P.; Choong, H.; Galea, H.; Hoeksema, B.; Lindsay, D.; Manko, M.; Pica, D. (2025). World Hydrozoa Database. Lychnagalma Haeckel, 1888. 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:135390