MarBEF Data System - ERMS - Praya Quoy & Gaimard in de Blainville, 1834

WoRMS taxon details

Praya Quoy & Gaimard in de Blainville, 1834

AphiaID

135376 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:135376)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Typetaxon

Diphyes dubia Quoy & Gaimard, 1833 accepted as Praya dubia (Quoy & Gaimard, 1833) (type by monotypy)

Typetaxon of

Prayidae Kölliker, 1853

Parent

Prayinae Kölliker, 1853

Synonymised names

Nectocarmen Alvariño, 1983 · unaccepted

Nectodroma Bigelow, 1911 · unaccepted

Praia Blainville, 1830 · unaccepted (spelling variant, not in use)

Prayoides Leloup, 1934 · unaccepted

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Species Praya dubia (Quoy & Gaimard, 1833)
Species Praya reticulata (Bigelow, 1911)
Species Praya californica Gravier, 1899 accepted as Rosacea cymbiformis (Delle Chiaje, 1830) (synonym)
Species Praya diphyes Lesson, 1843 accepted as Rosacea cymbiformis (Delle Chiaje, 1830) (synonym)
Species Praya maxima Gegenbaur, 1854 accepted as Rosacea cymbiformis (Delle Chiaje, 1830)
Species Praya medusa Metschnikoff & Metschnikoff, 1871 accepted as Lilyopsis medusa (Metschnikoff & Metschnikoff, 1871) (basionym)

Environment

marine, ~~brackish~~, ~~fresh~~, ~~terrestrial~~

Fossil range

recent only

Original description

Blainville, H. M. D. de. (1834). Manuel d'actinologie ou de zoophytologie. F.G. Levroult. Paris: Strasbourg. 1-2: 1-644, pls. I-C., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/9680581
page(s): 137 [details]

Taxonomic citation

Schuchert, P. (2024). World Hydrozoa Database. Praya Quoy & Gaimard in de Blainville, 1834. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=135376 on 2024-11-22

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2004-12-21 15:54:05Z

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Mapstone, Gill

2006-01-27 08:54:21Z

checked

Mapstone, Gill

2013-12-10 19:06:57Z

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Schuchert, Peter

2014-01-02 14:55:57Z

changed

Schuchert, Peter

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original description Blainville, H. M. D. de. (1834). Manuel d'actinologie ou de zoophytologie. F.G. Levroult. Paris: Strasbourg. 1-2: 1-644, pls. I-C., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/9680581
page(s): 137 [details]

original description (of Prayoides Leloup, 1934) Leloup E. (1934a). Siphonophores calycophorides de l'Ocean Atlantique tropical et austral. Bulletin du Musée Royal d'Histoire Naturelle de Belgique. 10(6): 1-87. [details] Available for editors

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original description (of Nectodroma Bigelow, 1911) Bigelow H.B. (1911c). 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., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/32451
page(s): 204 [details]

original description (of Nectocarmen Alvariño, 1983) Alvariño, A. 1983. Nectocarmen antonioi, a new Prayinae, Calycophorae, Siphonophora from California. Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. 96 (3): 339-348.
page(s): 339 [details]

original description (of Praia Blainville, 1830) de Blainville, H. M. (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 à l'utlité qu'en peuvent retirer la médicine, l'agriculture, le commerce et les arts. Edited by F. G. Levrault. Tome 60. Paris, Le Normat. Pp. 548, pls. 68. Paris, 1830. 60 : 1-546., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/25318344
page(s): 125 [details]

context source (Hexacorallia) Fautin, Daphne G. (2013). Hexacorallians of the World. (look up in IMIS) [details]

basis of record Totton, A. K. 1965. A Synopsis of the Siphonophora. London, British Museum (Natural History). Pp. 230.
page(s): 121 [details]

additional source 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. (look up in IMIS) [details]

additional source Mapstone, G. M. 2009. Siphonophora (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa) of Canadian Pacific waters. NRC Research Press, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. 302 p
page(s): 133 [details]

source of synonymy Pugh, P. R. (1992). The status of the genus Prayoides (Siphonophora, Prayidae). J. Mar. Biol. Assoc. U.K. 72 (4): 895-909.
page(s): 895 [details]

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Japanese	アイオイクラゲ属	[details]

To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Praia) (from synonym Praia Blainville, 1830)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Praya)
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