''Aequorea'' is a
genus
Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial nom ...
of
pelagic
The pelagic zone consists of the water column of the open ocean, and can be further divided into regions by depth (as illustrated on the right). The word ''pelagic'' is derived . The pelagic zone can be thought of as an imaginary cylinder or w ...
hydrozoa
Hydrozoa (hydrozoans; ) are a taxonomic class of individually very small, predatory animals, some solitary and some colonial, most of which inhabit saline water. The colonies of the colonial species can be large, and in some cases the specialize ...
ns in the
family
Family (from la, familia) is a group of people related either by consanguinity (by recognized birth) or affinity (by marriage or other relationship). The purpose of the family is to maintain the well-being of its members and of society. Idea ...
Aequoreidae.
Species
The genus contains the following species:
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Aequorea africana''
Millard Millard may refer to:
__NOTOC__ Places in the United States
* Millard, Missouri, a village
* Millard, Omaha, Nebraska, a former suburb and present-day neighborhood of Omaha
* Millard Creek, Pennsylvania
* Millard County, Utah
* Millard, Virginia, an ...
, 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''
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 two proteins involved in biolu ...
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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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