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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Ophiodes corrugata
Fraser, 1936a
Ophiodes corrugata
Fraser, 1936a
: 504
, figs. 2Α, B.
Ophiodissa corrugata
.—
Fraser, 1937a
: 113
, pl. 23, figs. 128a–c.
Hydrodendron corrugatum
.—
Rees & Vervoort, 1987
: 22
.
Syntypes
.
BCPM 976-00509-001
:
Canada
,
British Columbia
,
Houston Stewart Channel
; slide.
Lectotype
, by present designation.
RBCM 976-00509-002
:
Canada
,
British Columbia
,
Queen Charlotte Islands
(=
Haida Gwaii
),
Houston Stewart Channel
, off
Rose Harbour
, 30 fm (
55 m
), June-early
September 1935
, one colony fragment (on the left side of the slide),
1.8 mm
long, in good condition, without gonophores; slide.
Paralectotypes
.
BCPM 976-00509-001:
Canada
,
British Columbia
, Queen Charlotte Islands (=Haida Gwaii), Houston Stewart Channel, off Rose Harbour, 30 fm (
55 m
), June-early
September 1935
, several fragments mounted with
lectotype
, in good condition, without gonophores; slide.
Type
locality.
Canada
,
British Columbia
:
Queen Charlotte Islands
(=
Haida Gwaii
),
Houston Stewart Channel
, off
Rose Harbour
, 30 fm (
55 m
) (
Fraser 1936a
).
Current status.
Valid, as
Hydrodendron corrugatum
(
Fraser, 1936a
)
.
Remarks.
(
Fraser 1936a
) established
Ophiodes corrugata
based on sterile material. Several colonies appear to have been available to him in describing the species (see
Fraser 1936a
, 504; 1947a: 281). Specimens, taken to be
syntypes
, exist on a slide at the RBCM (BCPM 976-00509-001). No other
types
are known to exist. As
lectotype
, we have selected a 1.8 mm-long specimen with several hydrothecae and nematothecae. That colony (RBCM 976- 00509-002) is on the left side of the slide, with all others mounted with it constituting
paralectotypes
(BCPM 976- 00509-001).
The species was reported again, but not described, from San Miguel Island, California (
Fraser 1948
).
Rees & Vervoort (1987)
,
Cairns
et al.
(2002)
, and WoRMS refer to this hydroid under the binomen
Hydrodendron corrugatum
.