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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Clytia longitheca
Fraser, 1914a
Campanularia paulensis
Vänhoffen, 1910
: 298
, figs. 19a, b.
Clytia longitheca
Fraser, 1914a
: 137
(footnote).
Campanularia longitheca
Fraser, 1914a
: 137
, pl. 11, figs. 32Α–D.
Clytia
(?)
paulensis
.—
Stechow, 1919
: 45
.
Syntypes
.
BCPM 976-00382-001
:
Canada
,
British Columbia
, between
Round Island
and entrance to
Boat Harbour
,
18 June 1913
, 15–25 fm (
27–46 m
), rocky; dry.
BCPM 976-00383-001
:
Canada
,
British Columbia
, entrance of
Whaleboat Passage
,
28 July 1913
, 15–30 fm (
27–55 m
); dry.
BCPM 976-00384-001
:
Canada
,
British Columbia
, near
Round Island in Dodd Narrows
; slide.
BCPM 976-00384-002
:
Canada
,
British Columbia
, near
Round Island in Dodd Narrows
; slide.
BCPM 976-00385-001
:
Canada
,
British Columbia
,
Nanoose Bay
, outside
Entrance Rock
,
31 July 1914
, 10–20 fm (
18–37 m
), muddy or sandy, with gonangia (Arai 1977); dry.
Lectotype
, by present designation.
BCPM 976-00384-002
:
Canada
,
British Columbia
, near
Round Island in Dodd Narrows
, one colony, up to ca.
4 mm
high, in only fair condition, without gonothecae; slide.
Paralectotypes
.
BCPM 976-00382-001
:
Canada
,
British Columbia
, between
Round Island
and entrance to
Boat Harbour
,
18 June 1913
, 15–25 fm (
27–46 m
), rocky; dry.
BCPM 976-00383-001
:
Canada
,
British Columbia
, entrance of
Whaleboat Passage
,
28 July 1913
, 15–30 fm (
27–55 m
); dry.
BCPM 976-00384-001
:
Canada
,
British Columbia
, near
Round Island in Dodd Narrows
, one colony, in only fair condition, without gonothecae; slide.
BCPM 976-00385-001
:
Canada
,
British Columbia
,
Nanoose Bay
, outside
Entrance Rock
,
31 July 1914
, 10–20 fm (
18-37 m
), muddy or sandy, with gonothecae; dry.
Type
locality.
Canada
,
British Columbia
: near
Round Island in Dodd Narrows
(
Fraser 1914a
).
Current status.
Invalid.
Remarks.
Fraser did not designate a name-bearing
type
of
Clytia longitheca
in his original description of the species. In choosing a
lectotype
, we examined several
syntypes
of this hydroid in the Fraser Hydroid Collection at the RBCM (BCPM 976-00382-001, BCPM 976-00383-001, BCPM 976-00384-001, BCPM 976-00384-002, BCPM 976-00385-001). No other
type
material is known to exist. Hydroids in three of those collections (BCPM 976-00382-001, BCPM 976-00383-001, BCPM 976-00385-001), formerly in fluid preservative, are now dry and in very poor condition. Those on the two slides (BCPM 976-00384-001, BCPM 976-00384-002) are better, but still only marginally satisfactory. As the
lectotype
, we selected the colony on one of those slides (BCPM 976-00384- 002), with the other (BCPM 976-00384-001) assigned
paralectotype
status. Dry samples of the species, mentioned above, are included as
paralectotypes
.
Fraser (1914a)
intended at first to assign this species to
Campanularia
Lamarck, 1816
, as
C. longitheca
. After the manuscript had gone to press, he discovered material with gonothecae bearing nascent medusae, and in a footnote of the published paper correctly assigned it instead to
Clytia
Lamouroux, 1812
, as
C. longitheca
.
Calder (1971)
and
Cairns
et al
. (2002)
regarded
Clytia longitheca
Fraser, 1914a
as
a
probable synonym of
C. paulensis
(
Vänhoffen, 1910
)
.
Peña Cantero & García Carrascosa (2002)
treated the two as conspecific, an opinion currently upheld in WoRMS. An extensive synonymy of
C. paulensis
was given by
Medel & Vervoort (2000)
.