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