''Aequorea'' is a
genus
Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family (taxonomy), family as used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In bino ...
of
pelagic
The pelagic zone consists of the water column of the open ocean and can be further divided into regions by depth. The word ''pelagic'' is derived . The pelagic zone can be thought of as an imaginary cylinder or water column between the sur ...
hydrozoa
Hydrozoa (hydrozoans; from Ancient Greek ('; "water") and ('; "animals")) is a taxonomy (biology), taxonomic class (biology), class of individually very small, predatory animals, some solitary and some colonial, most of which inhabit saline wat ...
ns in the
family
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Aequoreidae
Aequoreidae is a family of hydrozoans, sometimes called the many-ribbed jellies or many-ribbed jellyfish. There are approximately 30 known species found in temperate and tropical marine coastal environments. Aequoreids include ''Aequorea victoria ...
.
Species
The genus contains the following species:
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Aequorea africana''
Millard, 1966
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Aequorea albida''
L. Agassiz, 1862
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Aequorea atrikeelis''
Lin, Xu, Huang & Wang, 2009
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Aequorea australis''
Uchida, 1947
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Aequorea coerulescens''
(Brandt, 1838)
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Aequorea conica''
Browne, 1905
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Aequorea cyanea''
de Blainville, 1834
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Aequorea floridana''
Agassiz, 1862
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Aequorea forskalea''
Péron & Lesueur, 1810
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Aequorea globosa''
Eschscholtz, 1829
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Aequorea krampi''
Bouillon, 1984
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Aequorea kurangai''
Gershwin, Zeidler & Davie, 2010
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Aequorea macrodactyla''
Brandt, 1835
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Aequorea minima''
Bouillon, 1985
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Aequorea nanhainensis
''Aequorea'' is a genus of pelagic hydrozoans in the family (biology), family Aequoreidae.
Species
The genus contains the following species:
*''Aequorea africana'' Naomi A. H. Millard, Millard, 1966
*''Aequorea albida'' L. Agassiz, 1862
*''Aequ ...
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Xu, Huang & Du, 2009
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Aequorea papillata''
Huang & Xu, 1994
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Aequorea parva''
Browne, 1905
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Aequorea pensilis''
Haeckel, 1879
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Aequorea phillipensis''
Watson, 1998
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Aequorea taiwanensis''
Zheng, Lin, Li, Cao, Xu & Huang, 2009
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Aequorea tenuis''
Agassiz, 1862
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Aequorea tetranema''
Xu, Huang & Du, 2009
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Aequorea victoria
''Aequorea victoria'', also sometimes called the crystal jelly, is a bioluminescent hydrozoan jellyfish, or hydromedusa, that is found off the west coast of North America.
The species is best known as the source of aequorin (a photoprotein), and ...
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Murbach & Shearer, 1902
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Aequorea vitrina''
Gosse, 1853
References
Aequoreidae
Hydrozoan genera
Bioluminescent cnidarians
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