Praya dubia: Where It Lives, Map & Facts

Praya dubia Praya dubia

Where the Praya dubia lives, with quick facts from Wikidata and an introduction from Wikipedia.

Recorded in (GBIF)Representative wild record

Pin and shaded countries are approximate. The pin is a representative wild sighting (a central record among 19 open-licence GBIF records), not an official range. Method · Records on GBIF · See jellyfish, corals & anemones on the world map

Scientific name	Praya dubia
Group	Jellyfish, corals & anemones
Class	Cnidarian
Order	Siphonophorae
Family	Prayidae

What kind of animal is the Praya dubia?

The Praya dubia (Praya dubia) is a cnidarian in the order Siphonophorae and the family Prayidae, genus Praya. (Taxonomy from Wikidata.)

About the Praya dubia

Praya dubia, the giant siphonophore, is a species of siphonophore hydrozoan that lives in the mesopelagic zone to bathypelagic zone at 700 m (2,300 ft) to 1,000 m (3,300 ft) below sea level. It has been found off the coasts around the world, from Iceland in the North Atlantic to Chile in the South Pacific. With a body length of up to 50 m (160 ft), it is the second-longest sea organism after the bootlace worm or the longest sea organism surpassing the bootlace worm if the longest specimens of the bootlace worm were just stretched beyond their usual length or nonexistent/mistaken. Its length also rivals the blue whale, the sea's largest mammal, although Praya dubia is as thin as a broomstick.

Text in “About” is quoted from the Wikipedia article Praya dubia (revision 1377890377), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Changes: lead section excerpted verbatim, formatting removed. Quick facts, taxonomy and status: Wikidata Q2512355 (CC0). Countries and pin: GBIF.org occurrence records (CC0 / CC BY 4.0).