Abylidae | |
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Bassia bassensis: right = colony, top center = upper bell from above, bottom right = upper bell inside, bottom center = lower bell from below, top right = group of an infertile and a male medusa, bottom left = female medusa | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Cnidaria |
Class: | Hydrozoa |
Order: | Siphonophorae |
Suborder: | Calycophorae |
Family: | Abylidae L. Agassiz, 1862 |
The Abylidae are a family 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 taxa:[1]