WoRMS taxon details
Praya Quoy & Gaimard, in de Blainville, 1834
AphiaID: 135376
AphiaID: 135376
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Hydrozoa (Class) > Hydroidolina (Subclass) > Siphonophorae (Order) > Calycophorae (Suborder) > Prayidae (Family) > Prayinae (Subfamily) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||
| Rank | Genus | ||||||||||
| Parent | Prayinae Chun, 1897 | ||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Diphyes Quoy & Gaimard, 1833 (synonym in part also with Rosacea) Nectocarmen Alvariño, 1983 Nectodroma Bigelow, 1911 Nectodroma Bigelow, 1911b Prayoides Leloup, 1934 Rosacea Schneider, 1898 | ||||||||||
| Sources |
original description: Blainville, H.M.D. De 1834. Manuel d’Actinologie ou de Zoophytologie. (F.G. Levrault: Paris, Strasbourg): Volume 1 (text),1-viii, 1-644; Volume 2 (atlas), pls I-C., available online at http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k981319/f3.image page(s): 125 [details] [full text] basis of record: Totton, A. K. 1965. A Synopsis of the Siphonophora. London, British Museum (Natural History). Pp. 230. page(s): 121 [details] additional source: Mapstone, G. M. 2001. Siphonophora, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 120-122 (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source: Mapstone, G. M. 2009. Siphonophora (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa) of Canadian Pacific waters. NRC Research Press, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. 302 p page(s): 133 [details] source of synonymy: Pugh, P. R. 1992b. The status of the genus Prayoides (Siphonophora, Prayidae). J. Mar. Biol. Assoc. U.K. 72 (4): 895-909. page(s): 895 [details] from synonym: Nomenclator Zoologicus, available online at http://uio.mbl.edu/NomenclatorZoologicus/ [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Mapstone, Gill (look up in IMIS) [details] [view taxon] from synonym: UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (look up in IMIS) [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Schneider, K. C. 1898. Mittheilungen über Siphonophoren. III. Systematische und andere Bemerkungen. Zool. Anz. 21: 51-57, 73-97, 114-133, 153-173, 185-200. page(s): 79 (in part) [details] [view taxon] | ||||||||||
| Direct child taxa [show all] | Species Praya dubia (Quoy & Gaimard in de Blainville, 1830) Species Praya reticulata (Bigelow, 1911) | ||||||||||
| Environment | marine | ||||||||||
| Link | To ITIS | ||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:135376 | ||||||||||
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| Citation: Mapstone, G. (2013). Praya Quoy & Gaimard, in de Blainville, 1834. In: Schuchert, P. (2013) World Hydrozoa database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=135376 on 2013-05-18 | |||||||||||
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