Rhacostoma | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Cnidaria |
Class: | Hydrozoa |
Order: | Leptothecata |
Family: | Aequoreidae |
Genus: | Rhacostoma L. Agassiz, 1850 |
Species: | R. atlanticum
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Binomial name | |
Rhacostoma atlanticum L. Agassiz, 1850
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Rhacostoma is a genus of aequoreid hydrozoans. It is monotypic with a single species, Rhacostoma atlanticum. It has been reported from the Atlantic coastline of North America, Colombia, western and central Africa.[1] The polyp stage is unknown.[2]