Praya (animal)

Genus of hydrozoans

Praya

Illustration of Praya dubia
Scientific classification
Domain:  | Eukaryota
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Cnidaria
Class:  | Hydrozoa
Order:  | Siphonophorae
Family:  | Prayidae
Genus:  | Praya
Quoy & Gaimard in de Blainville, 1834

Praya is a genus of marine invertebrates in the order Siphonophorae. They are colonial, but the colonies can superficially resemble jellyfish; although they appear to be a single organism, each specimen is actually a colony of Siphonophora. It contains the following species:

* Praya dubia (Quoy & Gaimard in de Blainville, 1830)
* Praya reticulata (Bigelow, 1911)

## References

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* "WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Praya Quoy & Gaimard in de Blainville, 1834".

Taxon identifiers

Praya|

* Wikidata: Q4012473
* AFD: Praya
* BOLD: 24314
* CoL: 7PV24
* GBIF: 5430211
* iNaturalist: 128783
* ITIS: 51337
* NBN: NHMSYS0021053952
* NCBI: 168784
* NZOR: b16a93cd-c090-4eae-9bbb-be1dacee71fe
* Open Tree of Life: 627417
* WoRMS: 135376

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