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Scientific Name: Melophysa melo (Quoy & Gaimard, 1827)
English Name: Not Known
Local/Bangla Name: Not Known
Classification:
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Cnidaria
Class: Hydrozoa
Order: Siphonophorae
Family: Agalmatidae
Description:
The pneumatophore is typically shaped like an oval or a pear.The nectosome is small, often reduced to just one primary functional nectophore, occasionally with a second smaller functional nectophore. In younger nectophores, there is a long, slanting pedicel and a smaller nectosac. In larger, mature nectophores, the pedicel is shorter, and the nectosac is wider. The tentacles carry numerous tentilla, are enclosed, tricornuate, and have 7 or 8 spiral coils in the cnidoband. The palpons form a crown below the bracts, and they are long, slender, and sessile, measuring about 12.0 mm in length. Their distal end is worm-like and features large nematocysts at the tip.Male and female gonodendra are found in pairs, alternating with gastrozooids at the base of the palpons.
Habitat & Distribution in Bangladesh:
Bay of Bengal, Bangladesh
Environment:
Marine
Main References:

Kabir SMH, Ahmed M, Ahmed ATA, Rahman AKA, Haque EU, Ahmed ZU, Begum ZNT, Hassan MA, Khondker M (eds) (2008) Encyclopedia of flora and fauna of Bangladesh. Protozoa-Gastrotricha. Asiatic Society of Bangladesh, Dhaka. Vol.14, 335 pp.

Other References:
DNA Barcodes from Bangladesh
GenBank Accession Number:
Other DNA Barcodes & Nucleutide Sequences
Other Information