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

Nanomia cara Agassiz, 1865

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Nanomia*	A. Agassiz, 1865	accepted genus name
*Anthemodes*	Haeckel, 1869	synonym

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Japanese: ナガヨウラクラゲ

Literature

original description	Agassiz, A. 1865a. Nanomia cara. - Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History 9: 181.
additional source	Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
additional source	Kramp, P. L. (1942). Siphonophora. The Godthaab Expedition 1928. Medd. Grønl. 80 (8): 3-24.
additional source	Baxter, E.J., R. McAllen, A.L. Allcock & T.K. Doyle. (2012). Abundance, distribution and community composition of small gelatinous zooplankton in southern irish coastal waters. Biology & Environment 112B(1):91-103.
additional source	Totton, A. K. 1965. A Synopsis of the Siphonophora. London, British Museum (Natural History). Pp. 230.
additional source	Hosia, A., & Bamstedt, U. 2008. Seasonal abundance and vertical distribution of siphonophores in western Norwegian fjords. Journal of Plankton Research 30: 951-962.
additional source	Fewkes, J.W., 1888. On certain medusae from New England. In: Studies from the Newport marine zool. Lab. Bull. Mus. comp. Zool. Harv. 13 7: 209-240.
additional source	Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. China Science Press. 1267 pp.
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	Rossi, S., M.J. Youngbluth, C.A. Jacoby, F. Pagès & X. Garrofé. (2008). Fatty acid trophic markers and trophic links among seston, crustacean zooplankton and the siphonophore Nanomia cara in Georges Basin and Oceanographer Canyon (NW Atlantic). Scientia Marina 72(2):403-416.
additional source	Brunel, P., L. Bosse & G. Lamarche. (1998). Catalogue of the marine invertebrates of the estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence. Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 126. 405 pp.
redescription	Agassiz, A. (1865). North American Acalephae. Illustrated Catalogue of the Museum of Comparative Zoölogy at Harvard College. 2: 1-234.
status source	Hosia A., Martell L., Manko M.K., Haddock S.H.D., Haberlin D., Mapstone G.M. (2024). Unexpected diversity and novel lineages in the cosmopolitan genus Nanomia (Cnidaria: Siphonophorae: Physonectae). Frontiers in Marine Science. 11:1421514.
ecology source	Fewkes, J.W., 1888. On certain medusae from New England. In: Studies from the Newport marine zool. Lab. Bull. Mus. comp. Zool. Harv. 13 7: 209-240.

Genbank

Citation

Schuchert, P.; Choong, H.; Galea, H.; Hoeksema, B.; Lindsay, D.; Manko, M.; Pica, D. (2025). World Hydrozoa Database. Nanomia cara Agassiz, 1865. 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:135496