Abyla (genus)

Abyla is a genus of siphonophore in the Abylidae.[1] The genus contains three species, some of which are bioluminescent.[2]

Abyla
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Cnidaria
Class: Hydrozoa
Order: Siphonophorae
Family: Abylidae
Genus: Abyla
Quoy & Gaimard, 1827
Type species
Abyla trigona
Quoy & Gaimard, 1827
Species
  • A. bicarinata Moser, 1925
  • A. haeckeli Lens & van Riemsdijk, 1908
  • A. trigona Quoy & Gaimard, 1827

References
  1. Schuchert, P. (2019). "Abyla Quoy & Gaimard, 1827". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 23 March 2019.
  2. Herring, Peter J. (1987). "Systematic distribution of bioluminescence in living organisms". Journal of Bioluminescence and Chemiluminescence. 1 (3): 147–163. doi:10.1002/bio.1170010303. PMID 3503524.


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