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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Zootaxa
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Grammaria elegans
Fraser, 1943a
Grammaria elegans
Fraser, 1943a
: 79
, pl. 18, fig. 7.
Holotype
.
MCZ-IZ 9007:
U.S.
Virgin Islands
: off
St. Croix
,
Blake
Expedition
,
17°37’55”N
,
64°54’20”W
, 115 fm (
210 m
), 0
5 January 1878
, one colony,
8 cm
high, with a detached fragment, in fairly good condition, without gonophores, labelled “
type
”; formalin, about to be transferred to ethanol.
Type
locality.
U.S.
Virgin Islands
: off
St. Croix
,
17°37’55”N
,
64°54’20”W
, 115 fm (
210 m
) (
Fraser 1943a
).
Current status.
Valid.
Remarks.
Fraser (1943a)
described
Grammaria elegans
from a hydroid colony in collections at the MCZ, but designated no name-bearing
type
for it. A single specimen of the species from the
type
locality (“off Santa Cruz Island”), labelled “
type
”, was located in the MCZ
Type
Collection (MCZ-IZ 9007). That specimen is the
holotype
by monotypy. No
types
were located elsewhere (NMNH, CAS, RBCM, YPM), and it was not mentioned as part of the Fraser Hydroid Collection at the RBCM by Arai (1977).
Grammaria elegans
is listed as valid in WoRMS. With the exception of one questionable record from slope waters off the Carolinas (
Hilbig 1994, as
G
. cf.
elegans
), the species is known only from the original description. Its gonosome is unknown.