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Athorybia Eschscholtz, 1829 
AphiaID: 135394

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Hydrozoa (Class) > Hydroidolina (Subclass) > Siphonophorae (Order) > Physonectae (Suborder) > Agalmatidae (Family)
Status accepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Genus
Parent Agalmatidae (Brandt, 1834)
Synonymised
taxa		  Anthophysa Chun, 1897
Sources  original description: Eschscholtz, F. 1829. System der Acalephen. Eine ausführliche Beschreibung aller medusenartigen Strahltiere. Ferdinand Dümmler, Berlin, pp. 1-190, 116 pls., available online at http://books.google.nl/books?id=ISRXpAmcqq4C&dq=inauthor%3A%22Johann%20Friedrich%20Eschscholtz%22&pg=PP9#v=onepage&q&f=false
page(s): 153 [details]

from synonym: Chun, C. 1897. Die Siphonophoren der Plankton-Expedition. Band II. Ergebnisse der Plankton-Expedition der Humboldt-Stiftung. Pp. 126, pls 5.
page(s): 61, taf.3 figs 7-8 [details] [view taxon]

Direct child
taxa
[show all]		 Species Athorybia lucida Biggs, 1978
Species Athorybia rosacea (Forskål, 1775)

Species Athorybia longifolia Kawamura, 1954 accepted as Athorybia rosacea (Forskål, 1775)
Species Athorybia melo Eschscholtz, 1829 accepted as Melophysa melo (Quoy & Gaimard, 1827)
Species Athorybia rosacea Bigelow, 1931 accepted as Melophysa melo (Quoy & Gaimard, 1827)
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Links To GenBank
To ITIS
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:135394
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  Mapstone, Gill
2006-01-27 08:54:21Z  checked  Mapstone, Gill
2012-10-16 16:03:34Z  changed  Mapstone, Gill
2012-10-19 08:46:23Z  changed  Mapstone, Gill
  
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  Citation: Mapstone, G. (2013). Athorybia Eschscholtz, 1829. In: Schuchert, P. (2013) World Hydrozoa database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=135394 on 2013-05-22
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