World Register of Deep-Sea species - Athorybia Eschscholtz, 1829

Deep-Sea taxon details

Athorybia Eschscholtz, 1829

AphiaID

135394 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:135394)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Type taxon of

Athorybiidae Huxley, 1859

Parent

Agalmatidae Brandt, 1835

Synonymised names

Anthophysa Brandt, 1835 · unaccepted

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Species Athorybia rosacea (Forsskål, 1775)

Environment

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

Fossil range

recent only

Original description

Eschscholtz, F. (1829). System der Acalephen. Eine ausführliche Beschreibung aller medusenartigen Strahltiere. Ferdinand Dümmler, Berlin, pp. 1-190, 116 pls., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/10665047
page(s): 153 [details]

Taxonomic citation

Schuchert, P.; Choong, H.; Galea, H.; Hoeksema, B.; Lindsay, D.; Manko, M.; Pica, D. (2026). World Hydrozoa Database. Athorybia Eschscholtz, 1829. Accessed through: Glover, A.G.; Higgs, N.; Horton, T. (2026) World Register of Deep-Sea species (WoRDSS) at: https://www.marinespecies.org/DeepSea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=135394 on 2026-08-10

Thematic species database citation

Glover, A.G.; Higgs, N.; Horton, T. (2026). World Register of Deep-Sea species (WoRDSS). Athorybia Eschscholtz, 1829. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/deepsea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=135394 on 2026-08-10

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2004-12-21 15:54:05Z

created

Mapstone, Gill

2006-01-27 08:54:21Z

checked

Mapstone, Gill

2012-10-16 16:03:34Z

changed

Mapstone, Gill

2012-10-19 08:46:23Z

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Mapstone, Gill

2014-01-02 11:02:58Z

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Schuchert, Peter

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original description Eschscholtz, F. (1829). System der Acalephen. Eine ausführliche Beschreibung aller medusenartigen Strahltiere. Ferdinand Dümmler, Berlin, pp. 1-190, 116 pls., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/10665047
page(s): 153 [details]

original description (of Anthophysa Brandt, 1835) Brandt, J. F. (1834-1835). Prodromus descriptionis animalium ab H. Mertensio observatorum : fascic. I. Polypos, Acalephas Discophoras et Siphonophoras, nec non Echinodermata continens. <em>Recueil des Actes de la Séance Publique de l'Académie Impériale des Sciences de St. Pétersbourg.</em> 1834: 201-275., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/10765514
page(s): 235 [details]

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

Present

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

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Language	Name
Japanese	ノキシノブクラゲ属	[details]

To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Anthophysa) (from synonym Anthophysa Brandt, 1835)
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