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
2018
2018-10-02
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Campanularia magnifica
Fraser, 1913b
Campanularia crenata
Αllman, 1876: 258, pl. 11, figs. 1, 2.
Campanularia magnifica
Fraser, 1913b
: 164
, pl. 11, figs. 1–3.
Syntypes
.
BCPM 976-00355-001
:
Canada
,
Nova Scotia
,
Canso
, Canso Banks.
BCPM 976-00355-002
:
Canada
,
Nova Scotia
,
Canso
, Canso Banks.
Lectotype
, by present designation.
BCPM 976-00355-001
:
Canada
,
Nova Scotia
,
Canso Banks
, 50 fm (
91 m
), 1902 (?), originally on a stalked ascidian, one colony fragment,
4 mm
high, in fairly good condition, without gonophores; slide.
Paralectotype
.
BCPM 976-00355-002
:
Canada
,
Nova Scotia
,
Canso Banks
, 50 fm (
91 m
), 1902 (?), originally on a stalked ascidian, one colony fragment,
2.5 mm
high, in fairly good condition, without gonophores; slide.
Type
locality.
Canada
,
Nova Scotia
:
Canso Banks
, 50 fm (
91 m
), on a stalked ascidian (
Fraser 1913b
).
Current status.
Invalid.
Remarks.
In the original description of
Campanularia magnifica
, no name-bearing
type
was designated by
Fraser (1913b)
. However,
syntype
material of the species exists on two slides in the Fraser Hydroid Collection at the RBCM (BCPM 976-00355-001, BCPM 976-00355-002). After examining both slides, we selected the specimen on the first of these (BCPM 976-00355-001) as the
lectotype
. The specimen on the other (BCPM 976- 00355-002) is assigned
paralectotype
status. Collections of the species at the NMNH (USNM 23969, USNM 42745) are from sites (Grand Banks,
St. Pierre
Bank) outside the
type
locality (Canso Bank, NS) and are not part of the
type
series.
Cornelius (1982: 52)
included
Campanularia magnifica
Fraser, 1913b
from
Nova Scotia
, along with
C. speciosa
Clark, 1877
from
Alaska
, in the synonymy of
C. crenata
Allman, 1876
from
Japan
. Geographically, the synonymy seems plausible because the species is circumpolar (
Naumov 1960
, as
C. speciosa
; Antsulevich 2015, as
Tulpa crenata
), including the North American Arctic and Subarctic (
Calder 1970, as
C. speciosa
). Currently listed as
Campanularia crenata
in WoRMS, it is included here in
Tulpa
Stechow, 1921a
, as
T. crenata
.