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

Nectopyramis thetis Bigelow, 1911

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Nectopyramis*	Bigelow, 1911	accepted genus name
*Archisoma*	Bigelow, 1911	synonym

Literature

original description	Bigelow H.B. (1911b). The Siphonophora. Biscayan Plankton collected during a Cruise of H. M. S. "Research" 1900. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London. 337-358, pl. 28.
basis of record	Mapstone, G.M. (2001). Siphonophora, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) 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.
additional source	Mapstone, G. M. 2009. Siphonophora (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa) of Canadian Pacific waters. NRC Research Press, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. 302 p
additional source	Leloup, E. (1932). L'eudoxie d'un siphonophore calycophoride rare, le Nectopyramis thetis Bigelow. [The eudoxia of a rare calycophoride siphonophore, the Nectopyramis thetis Bigelow.] Bull. Mus. royal d'Hist. Nat. Belg./Med. Kon. Natuurhist. Mus. Belg. 8(3): 1-8.
additional source	Totton, A. K. (1954). Siphonophora of the Indian Ocean together with systematic and biological notes on related specimens from other oceans. Discovery Rep. 27: 1-162.
redescription	Sears, M. 1952. Notes on Siphonophores. 3. Nectopyramis spinosa n. sp. Breviora 3: 1-4
redescription	Pugh, P. R. (1992). A revision of the sub-family Nectopyramidinae (Siphonophora, Prayidae). Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lon. B Biol. Sci. 335: 281-322.
ecology source	Mapstone, G. M. 2009. Siphonophora (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa) of Canadian Pacific waters. NRC Research Press, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. 302 p

Genbank

Citation

Schuchert, P.; Choong, H.; Galea, H.; Hoeksema, B.; Lindsay, D.; Manko, M.; Pica, D. (2025). World Hydrozoa Database. Nectopyramis thetis Bigelow, 1911. 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:135465