Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Cnidaria > 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. 1911. The Siphonophorae. Reports of the scientific research expedition to the tropical Pacific. Albatross XXIII. - Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College 38: 173-401, 32 pls.

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

additional source

Nomenclator Zoologicus

additional source

ITIS database

additional source

Mapstone, G. M. 2009. Siphonophora (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa) of Canadian Pacific waters. NRC Research Press, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. 302 p

redescription

Pugh, P. R. 1992a. 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.

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Citation

Schuchert, P.; Mapstone, G. (2014). Nectopyramis Bigelow, 1911. In: Schuchert, P. (2014) World Hydrozoa database. In: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2014) European Register of Marine Species, accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:135375

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Occurrence

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Environment


marine, not brackish, not fresh, not terrestrial

Importance

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2013-12-29 by Peter Schuchert

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