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

Nectopyramis Bigelow, 1911

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Archisoma*	Bigelow, 1911	synonym

Children

Nectopyramis natans (Bigelow, 1911)
Nectopyramis thetis Bigelow, 1911

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.
additional source	Neave, Sheffield Airey. (1939-1996). Nomenclator Zoologicus vol. 1-10 Online. [Online Nomenclator Zoologicus at Checklistbank. Ubio link has gone].
additional source	Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
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.
new combination reference	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.

Genbank

Citation

Schuchert, P.; Choong, H.; Galea, H.; Hoeksema, B.; Lindsay, D.; Manko, M.; Pica, D. (2025). World Hydrozoa Database. Nectopyramis 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:135375