Vallentinia gabriellae: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Cnidaria
- Class
- Hydrozoa
- Order
- Limnomedusae
- Family
- Olindiidae
- Genus
- Vallentinia
- Species
- Vallentinia gabriellae
- Scientific Name
- Vallentinia gabriellae
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Vallentinia gabriellae
Vallentinia gabriellae, the hitch-hiking jellyfish, is a species of small, inconspicuous hydrozoan in the family Olindiidae. It is endemic to a few isolated parts of the western Atlantic Ocean. It is elusive in the wild but sometimes makes its appearance unexpectedly in seawater cultures of other organisms in the laboratory.
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