MarBEF Data System - ERMS - Praya dubia (Quoy & Gaimard, 1833)

WoRMS taxon details

Praya dubia (Quoy & Gaimard, 1833)

AphiaID

135466 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:135466)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Praya Quoy & Gaimard in de Blainville, 1834

Original name

Diphyes dubia Quoy & Gaimard, 1833

Synonymised names

Diphyes dubia Quoy & Gaimard, 1833 · unaccepted (basionym)

Nectocarmen antonioi Alvariño, 1983 · unaccepted (synonym)

Praia dubia Blainville, 1830 · unaccepted (reference to manuscript of Quoy &...)

reference to manuscript of Quoy & Gaimard, 1833

Prayoides intermedia Leloup, 1934 · unaccepted (synonym)

Environment

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

Fossil range

recent only

Original description

(of Diphyes dubia Quoy & Gaimard, 1833) Quoy, J. R. C.; Gaimard, J. P. (1833). Zoologie IV: Zoophytes. In:Zoologie. Voyage de la corvette l'Astrolabe : exécuté par ordre du roi, pendant les années 1826-1827-1828-1829 / sous le commandement de J. Dumont d'Urville. pp. 1-390. Paris, J. Tastu., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2064339
page(s): 104, pl. 5 figs 34-36 [details]

Descriptive notes

Distribution cosmopolitan, excl. Mediterranean

Distribution cosmopolitan, excl. Mediterranean [details]

Taxonomic citation

Schuchert, P.; Choong, H.; Galea, H.; Hoeksema, B.; Lindsay, D.; Manko, M.; Pica, D. (2025). World Hydrozoa Database. Praya dubia (Quoy & Gaimard, 1833). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=135466 on 2025-04-18

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2004-12-21 15:54:05Z

created

Mapstone, Gill

2006-01-20 13:52:22Z

checked

Mapstone, Gill

2013-12-09 19:33:49Z

changed

Schuchert, Peter

2013-12-10 19:06:57Z

changed

Schuchert, Peter

2013-12-29 08:53:57Z

changed

Schuchert, Peter

Licensing

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Nomenclature

original description (of Prayoides intermedia 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.
page(s): 11, fig. 4 [details] Available for editors

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original description (of Nectocarmen antonioi 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, figs 1-5 [details]

original description (of Diphyes dubia Quoy & Gaimard, 1833) Quoy, J. R. C.; Gaimard, J. P. (1833). Zoologie IV: Zoophytes. In:Zoologie. Voyage de la corvette l'Astrolabe : exécuté par ordre du roi, pendant les années 1826-1827-1828-1829 / sous le commandement de J. Dumont d'Urville. pp. 1-390. Paris, J. Tastu., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2064339
page(s): 104, pl. 5 figs 34-36 [details]

original description (of Praia dubia 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]

Taxonomy

redescription Mapstone, G. M. 2009. Siphonophora (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa) of Canadian Pacific waters. NRC Research Press, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. 302 p
page(s): 134-137, fig 28A-D [details]

Ecology

ecology source Pugh, P. R. (1999). Siphonophorae. In South Atlantic Zooplankton I. Edited by D. Boltovskoy. Backhuys Publishers, Leiden, The Netherlands. 1-868. [details]

ecology source Robison, B.H., 2004. Deep pelagic biology. J. Exp. Mar. Biol. Ecol. 300 1-2: 253-272. [details] Available for editors

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Other

context source (Deepsea) Pugh, P. R. (2013). Confirmed records of Siphonophorae found below 500 m depth. (personal database). [details]

context source (Bermuda) Morris, B. F. (1975). The neuston of the Northwest Atlantic . Ph.D. thesis - Dalhousie University. [details]

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

additional source Pugh, P. R. & Gasca, R. (2009). Siphonophorae (Cnidaria) of the Gulf of Mexico. Pp. 395–402. In: Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas. [details]

additional source Pugh, P. R. (1992). The status of the genus Prayoides (Siphonophora, Prayidae). J. Mar. Biol. Assoc. U.K. 72 (4): 895-909.
page(s): 896, figs 2, 4b, 5, 7, 9 [details]

additional source Pugh, P. R. (1999). Siphonophorae. In South Atlantic Zooplankton I. Edited by D. Boltovskoy. Backhuys Publishers, Leiden, The Netherlands. 1-868.
page(s): 485, figs 3.36, 3.47 [details]

additional source Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. China Science Press. 1267 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors

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additional source Cairns, S.D., L. Gershwin, F.J. Brook, P. Pugh, E.W. Dawson, O.V. Ocaña, W. Vervoort, G. Williams, J.E. Watson, D.M. Opresko, P. Schuchert, P.M. Hine, D.P. Gordon, H.I. Campbell, A.J. Wright, J.A.Sánchez & D.G. Fautin. (2009). Phylum Cnidaria: corals, medusae, hydroids, myxozoans. in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 1. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. :59-101., available online at https://repository.si.edu/handle/10088/8431 [details] Available for editors

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