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Siphonophorae Eschscholtz 1829

Aino Hosia. University Museum of Bergen, Natural History Collections. Aino Hosia. Year: 2015. Contact: aino.hosia@gmail.com, aino.hosia@uib.no.   cc-by-nc-sa-3.0

Siphonophorae is an order of cnidarians. There are 208 species of Siphonophorae, in 69 genera and 19 families.

EOL has data for 9 attributes, including:

  • known marine species
    • URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/DescribedAcceptedSpecies
    • Definition: number of currently described and taxonomically accepted marine species in this clade (Appeltans et al. 2012. The Magnitude of Global Marine Species Diversity. Current Biology 22, 2189–2202. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2012.09.036)
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    176
  • undescribed marine species present in museum collections
    • URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/UndescribedSpeciesInMuseumCollections
    • Definition: "marine species in this clade which are currently represented in specimen collections (estimate) (Appeltans et al. 2012. The Magnitude of Global Marine Species Diversity. Current Biology 22, 2189–2202. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2012.09.036)"
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    60
Known occurrences, collected specimens and observations of Siphonophorae Eschscholtz 1829. View this species on GBIF