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Praya dubia (Quoy & Gaimard in de Blainville, 1830) 
AphiaID: 135466

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Hydrozoa (Class) > Hydroidolina (Subclass) > Siphonophorae (Order) > Calycophorae (Suborder) > Prayidae (Family) > Prayinae (Subfamily) > Praya (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Praya Quoy & Gaimard, in de Blainville, 1834
Synonymised
taxa
  Diphyes dubia Quoy & Gaimard, 1833
Nectocarmen antonioi Alvariño, 1983 (synonym)
Nectodroma dubia Bigelow, 1911
Prayoides intermedia Leloup, 1934 (Synonym)
Rosacea dubia Schneider, 1898
Sources  original description: De Blainville, H. M. D. de 1830. Zoophytes. In Dictionnaire des sciences naturelles, dans lequel on traitre méthodiquement des differéns êtres de la nature, considérés soit en eux-mêmes, d’après l’état actuel de nos connoissances, soit relativement a l’utlité qu’en peuvent retirer la edicine, l’agriculture, le commerce et les arts. Edited by F. G. Levrault. Tome 60. Paris, Le Normat. Pp. 548, pls. 68. [details]

basis of record: 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: Pugh, P. R. 1992b. The status of the genus Prayoides (Siphonophora, Prayidae). J. Mar. Biol. Assoc. U.K. 72 (4): 895-909.
page(s): 896, figs 2, 4b, 5, 7, 9 [details]


additional source: Pugh, P. R. 1999b. Siphonophorae. In South Atlantic Zooplankton I. Edited by D. Boltovskoy. Backhuys Publishers, Leiden, The Netherlands. Pp. 868.
page(s): 485, figs 3.36, 3.47 [details]


additional source: Pugh, P. R. 2009. Siphonophora (Cnidaria). In: Gordon, D. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand Inventory of Biodiversity. Volume One: Kingdom Animalia. 584 pp [details]

additional source: Pugh, P. R. and R. Gasca. 2009. Siphonophorae (Cnidaria) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 395–402 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas. [details]

redescription: Mapstone, G. M. 2009. Siphonophora (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa) of Canadian Pacific waters. NRC Research Press, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. 302 p
page(s): 134-137, fig 28A-D [details]


from synonym: Leloup, E. 1934. Siphonophores calycophorides de l’océan Atlantique tropical et austral. Bull. Mus. r. hist. nat. Belg. 10 (6): 1-87.
page(s): 11, fig.4 [details] [view taxon]


from synonym: UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (look up in IMIS[details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Alvariño, A. 1983. Nectocarmen antonioi, a new Prayinae, Calycophorae, Siphonophora from California. Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. 96 (3): 339-348.
page(s): 339, figs 1-5 [details] [view taxon]


from synonym: Quoy, J.R.C. & J.P. Gaimard, 1833. Voyage de découvertes de l'Astrolabe pendant les années 1826, 1827, 1828-1829 sous le commandement de M. J. Dumont-D'Urville. Zoologie 4 : 1-390
page(s): 104, pl. 5 figs 34-36 [details] [view taxon]


from synonym: Bigelow, H. B. 1911. Reports on the scientific results of the expedition to the eastern tropical Pacific, in charge of Alexander Agassiz, by the U. S. Fish Commission Steamer “Albatross”, from October, 1904, to March, 1905, Lieut. -Commander L. M. Garrett, U. S. N., commanding. XXIII. The Siphonophorae. Mem. Mus. Comp. Zoöl. Harvard Coll. 38 (2): 171-401, 32 pls.
page(s): 204 (in part), pl.3 figs 8-9 [details] [view taxon]


context source (Deepsea): Pugh, P. R. Confirmed records of Siphonophorae found below 500 m depth (personal database). [details]

Environment marine
Distribution Atlantic Europe [details]
Canadian Exclusive Economic Zone [Pacific part] [details]
European waters (ERMS scope) [details]
FAO fishing area 67 [details]
Gulf of Mexico [details]
Mediterranean Sea [details]
New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
North Pacific [details]
North West Atlantic [details]
United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Links To Barcode of Life (1 barcode)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (6 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (4 nucleotides; 1 proteins)
To Marine Species Identification Portal
To PESI
To ITIS
Notes  Distribution: cosmopolitan, excl. Mediterranean [details]

Habitat: epi-mesopelagic [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:135466
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  Mapstone, Gill
2006-01-20 13:52:22Z  checked  Mapstone, Gill
  
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  Citation: Mapstone, G. (2013). Praya dubia (Quoy & Gaimard in de Blainville, 1830). In: Schuchert, P. (2013) World Hydrozoa database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=135466 on 2013-05-24
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