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

Physophora gilmeri Pugh, 2005

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Physophora*	Forsskål, 1775	accepted genus name
*Physsophora*	Forsskål, 1775	orthographic variant

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Japanese: バレンクラゲモドキ

Literature

original description	Pugh, P. R. 2005. A new species of Physophora (Siphonophora: Physonectae: Physophoridae) from the North Atlantic, with comments on related species. Systematics and Biodiversity 2 3: 251-270.
additional source	Pugh, P. R. 2006. The taxonomic status of the genus Moseria (Siphonophora, Physonectae). Zootaxa 26: 1-42.
additional source	Lindsay D.J., Miyake H. (2009). A checklist of midwater cnidarians and ctenophores from Japanese waters ‒species sampled during submersible surveys from 1993-2008 with notes on their taxonomy. Kaiyo Monthly. 41(8): 417–438.
ecology source	Pugh, P. R. 2005. A new species of Physophora (Siphonophora: Physonectae: Physophoridae) from the North Atlantic, with comments on related species. Systematics and Biodiversity 2 3: 251-270.

Genbank

Citation

Schuchert, P.; Choong, H.; Galea, H.; Hoeksema, B.; Lindsay, D.; Manko, M.; Pica, D. (2025). World Hydrozoa Database. Physophora gilmeri Pugh, 2005. 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:196538