Names of hydroids (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa) established by Charles McLean Fraser (1872 - 1946), excluding those from Allan Hancock Expeditions
Author
Calder, Dale R.
Author
Choong, Henry H. C.
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Lictorella carolina
Fraser, 1911
Lictorella carolina
Fraser, 1911
: 53
, pl. 4, figs. 3–5.
Zygophylax carolina
.—
Rees & Vervoort, 1987
: 71
.
Zygophylax carolinus
Cairns
et al
., 1991
: 24
.
Holotype.
See Remarks below.
Type
locality.
USA
,
Washington
:
San Juan
Archipelago (
Fraser 1911
).
Current status.
Valid, as
Zygophylax carolina
(
Fraser, 1911
)
.
Remarks.
Fraser (1911)
described
Lictorella carolina
from a single detached specimen that may not have constituted a complete colony.
Rees & Vervoort (1987)
considered an “imperfectly preserved specimen labelled: ‘
Lictorella carolina
Fraser.
San Juan
. T. Kincaid’" in the NMNH to be
type
material and probably the
holotype
of the species (
No
. 70625, with
No
. 34084 on a separate label). The collection could not be located in the online database of the NMNH under either number during this study. Neither could the specimen be found during a visit by one of us (
DRC
) to the NMNH in
September 2017
. Hydroids of
L. carolina
in the Fraser Hydroid Collection at the RBCM (BCPM 976-00334-001: Trinity Islands,
20 August
1914
, 91 m, dry; BCPM 976-00335-001: Gulf of
Alaska
) (Arai 1977) are not
types
.
Additional information on morphology of this species, beyond the original description, exists in
Fraser (1914b)
.
Rees & Vervoort (1987)
remarked that the hydroid, as
Zygophylax carolina
, was “insufficiently described” and founded on sterile material. Nevertheless,
Z. carolina
has been listed as valid in
Cairns
et al
. (2002
, as
Z. carolinus
), Antsulevich (2015), and WoRMS.