Abyla (cnidarian)

Abyla
Abyla haeckeli
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Cnidaria
Class: Hydrozoa
Order: Siphonophorae
Family: Abylidae
Genus: Abyla
Quoy & Gaimard, 1827
Type species
Abyla trigona
Quoy & Gaimard, 1827
Species

Abyla is a genus of colonial siphonophore in the subfamily Abylidae and the suborder Calycophorae. The genus contains three species and was established by Quoy and Gaimard in 1827.[1]

  1. ^ Audouin, Jean Victor; Bouvier, E.-L.; Grassé, Pierre-Paul; Milne-Edwards, H.; Milne-Edwards, Alphonse; Perrier, Edmond (1834). Annales des sciences naturelles. Vol. 1. Paris: Crochard.