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

Lychnagalma utricularia (Claus, 1879)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Original genus

Agalmopsis Sars, 1846

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Lychnagalma*	Haeckel, 1888	accepted genus name

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Japanese: ヤツイトクラゲ

Literature

basis of record	Claus, C. (1879). Agalmopsis utricularia, eine neue Siphonophore des Mittelmeeres. Arbeiten aus dem zoologischen Institut der Universität Wien 2. 199-202.
additional source	Pugh, P. R. (1989). Gelatinous zooplankton - the forgotten fauna. Prog. Underwater Sci. 14, 67-78.
additional source	Mills, C. E.; Pugh, P. R.; Harbison, G. R. & Haddock, S. H. D. (1996). Medusae, siphonophores and ctenophores of the Alborán Sea, south western Mediterranean. In: Advances in Hydrozoan Biology. Edited by S. Piraino, F. Boero, J. Bouillon, P. F. S. Cornelius and Gili, J.M. Scientia Marina. 60(1): 145-163.
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	Casanova, J.-P., 1980. Campagnes du "Meteor" dans l'Atlantique N-E. Siphonophores, Méduses et Thécosomes. Distribution verticale et comparaisons faunistiques avec la Méditerranée. "Meteor" Forsch.-Erbgeb. -32 : 15-32.
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.
ecology source	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 utricularia (Claus, 1879). 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:135492