Rosacea (animal)

Rosacea is a genus in the Prayidae. The genus contains bioluminescent species.[5]

Rosacea
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Cnidaria
Class:	Hydrozoa
Order:	Siphonophorae
Family:	Prayidae
Subfamily:	Prayinae
Genus:	Rosacea Quoy & Gaimard, 1827[1]
Type species
Rosacea plicata Bigelow, 1911 (by subsequent designation)
Species[2]
Rosacea arabiana Pugh, 2002 Rosacea cymbiformis (Delle Chiaje, 1830) Rosacea flaccida Biggs, Pugh & Carré, 1978 Rosacea limbata Pugh & Youngbluth, 1988 Rosacea plicata Bigelow, 1911 Rosacea repanda Pugh & Youngbluth, 1988
Synonyms[2]
Eudoxella Haeckel, 1888[3] Neorosacea Margulis, 1994[4]

References

1. Quoy, J. R. C. & Gaimard, J. P. (1827). Observations zoologiques faites à bord de l'Astrolabe, en mai 1826, dans le Détroit de Gibraltar. Annales des Sciences Naturelles. 10: 5-21, 172-193, 225-239; pl. 1-2, 4-9., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/6008318 page: 176
2. Schuchert, P. (2019). World Hydrozoa Database. Rosacea Quoy & Gaimard, 1827. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=135379 on 2019-10-15
3. Haeckel, E. (1888). Report on the Siphonophorae. Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873–76. Zoology. 28 (part 77): i-viii, 1-380, pl. 1-50., available online at http://www.19thcenturyscience.org/HMSC/HMSC-Reports/Zool-77/README.htm page(s): 108
4. Margulis, R. Ya. 1994. Revision of the genus Rosacea (Cnidaria, Siphonophora, Calycophorae, Prayidae, Prayinae). Zool. Zh. 73 (11): 15-28. (English translation in Hydrobiological Journal 31 (7): 33-50, 1995). page(s): 24, pl.3a-l
5. 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.