Dendrogramma

Dendrogramma
Dendrogramma enigmatica
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Cnidaria
Class: Hydrozoa
Order: Siphonophorae
Family: Rhodaliidae
Genus: Dendrogramma
Just, Kristensen, & Olesen, 2014[1]
Type species
Dendrogramma enigmatica
Just, Kristensen, & Olesen, 2014
Species
  • D. enigmatica Just, Kristensen, & Olesen, 2014 (=D. discoides)

Dendrogramma enigmatica is a species of siphonophore, the only one in its genus. It has been first described in 2014 on the basis of its morphology from a collection of specimens gathered in 1986. Its taxonomic affinity among animals was then unclear, but RNA from new specimens in 2016 allowed it to be identified as a siphonophore by barcoding and phylogenomics. The specimens are presumed to represent parts (bracts) of an entire siphonophore that has not been identified yet.

  1. ^ Just, J.; Kristensen, R.M.; Olesen, J. (2014). "Dendrogramma, New Genus, with Two New Non-Bilaterian Species from the Marine Bathyal of Southeastern Australia (Animalia, Metazoa incertae sedis) – with Similarities to Some Medusoids from the Precambrian Ediacara". PLoS ONE. 9 (9): e102976. Bibcode:2014PLoSO...9j2976J. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0102976. PMC 4153628. PMID 25184248.