Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Cnidaria > Subphylum Medusozoa > Class Hydrozoa > Subclass Hydroidolina > Order Siphonophorae > Suborder Calycophorae > Family Prayidae > Subfamily Prayinae

Rosacea Quoy & Gaimard, 1827

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Rosacea cymbiformis (Delle Chiaje, 1830)
Rosacea plicata Bigelow, 1911

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Japanese: アイオイクラゲ属

Literature

original description	Quoy, J. R. C.; Gaimard, J. P. (1827). Observations zoologiques faites à bord de l'Astrolabe, en mai 1826, dans le Détroit de Gibraltar. Annales des Sciences Naturelles. 10: 5-21, 172-193, 225-239; pls 1-2, 4-9.
additional source	Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
additional source	Kirkpatrick, P.A.; Pugh, P.R. (1984). Siphonophores and velellids: keys and notes for the identification of the species. Synopses of the British fauna (new series), 29. E.J. Brill/W. Backhuys: London, UK. ISBN 90-04-07470-8. vi, 154 pp.
status source	Opinion, I. 2006. (Case 3309). Rosacea Quoy & Gaimard, 1827: usage conserved; Desmophyes annectens Haeckel, 1888 and Rosacea plicata Bigelow, 1911: conserved (Cnidaria, Siphonophora). Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 63: 207-208.

Genbank

Citation

Schuchert, P.; Choong, H.; Galea, H.; Hoeksema, B.; Lindsay, D.; Manko, M.; Pica, D. (2025). World Hydrozoa Database. Rosacea Quoy & Gaimard, 1827. Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:135379