''Nectopyramis'' is a genus of

hydrozoa Hydrozoa (hydrozoans; from Ancient Greek ('; "water") and ('; "animals")) is a taxonomy (biology), taxonomic class (biology), class of individually very small, predatory animals, some solitary and some colonial, most of which inhabit saline wat ...

n belonging to the family

Prayidae Prayidae is a family of marine invertebrates in the order Siphonophorae. They are Colony (biology), colonial, and the colonies can superficially resemble jellyfish; although they appear to be a single organism, each specimen is actually a colony ...

. The genus has almost

cosmopolitan distribution In biogeography, a cosmopolitan distribution is the range of a taxon that extends across most or all of the surface of the Earth, in appropriate habitats; most cosmopolitan species are known to be highly adaptable to a range of climatic and en ...

(oceans). Species: * '' Nectopyramis natans'' (Bigelow, 1911) * '' Nectopyramis thetis'' Bigelow, 1911

References

Prayidae Hydrozoan genera {{Siphonophorae-stub