Apolemia
| Apolemia | |
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| Apolemia uvaria | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Cnidaria |
| Class: | Hydrozoa |
| Order: | Siphonophorae |
| Suborder: | Physonectae |
| Family: | Apolemiidae Huxley, 1859 |
| Genus: | Apolemia Eschscholtz, 1829 |
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Apolemia is a genus of siphonophores. It is the only genus in the monotypic family Apolemiidae.
Like other siphonophores, Apolemia members may resemble an individual organism, but they are instead colonial, consisting of many polyp and medusoid components collectively known as zooids.