Cystonectae: taxon details and analytics

Domain
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Cnidaria
Class
Hydrozoa
Order
Siphonophorae
Family
Genus
Species
Scientific Name
Cystonectae

Summary description from Wikipedia:

Cystonectae

Cystonectae is a suborder of siphonophores. It includes the Portuguese man o' war (Physalia physalis) and Bathyphysa conifera.

In Japanese, it is called 嚢泳 (Nōei).

The typical cystonect body plan has a pneumatophore (float) and siphosome (line of polyps) but no nectosome (propulsion medusae).

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Cystonectae in languages:

Japanese
嚢泳亜目

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