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Egmundella fasciculata Fraser 1940

Description

Egmundella fasciculata Fraser, 1940a

Egmundella fasciculata Fraser, 1940a: 577, pl. 32, figs. 4a, b.

Syntypes. USNM 43436: USA, North Atlantic Ocean off Martha’s Vineyard, R / V Fish Hawk Sta. 949, 40°03’N, 70°31’W, 23 August 1881, rake dredge, 183 m, several colonies or colony fragments, without gonophores, labelled “ type ”; ethanol.

Lectotype, by present designation. USNM 43436: USA, North Atlantic Ocean off Martha’s Vineyard, R / V Fish Hawk Sta. 949, 40°03’N, 70°31’W, 23 August 1881, rake dredge, 183 m, one colony, 2.5 cm high, in fairly good condition, without gonophores, labelled “ type ”; ethanol.

Paralectotypes. USNM 1458911: USA, North Atlantic Ocean off Martha’s Vineyard, R / V Fish Hawk Sta. 949, 40°03’N, 70°31’W, 23 August 1881, rake dredge, 183 m, several colonies or colony fragments, up to 2.0 cm high, in from good to poor condition, without gonophores; ethanol.

BCPM 976-00289-001: USA, south of Martha's Vineyard, 40°03'N, 70°31'W, 23 August 1881, 183 m, several colony fragments, in poor condition, without gonophores, labelled “co-type”; 60% IPA.

Type locality. USA, Massachusetts: edge of continental shelf south of Martha’s Vineyard, 40°03’N, 70°31’W, 183 m (Fraser 1940a).

Current status. Valid.

Remarks. Fraser’s (1940a) “ type ” of Egmundella fasciculata is currently listed as a holotype in the online database of the NMNH (USNM 43436). However, several colonies or colony fragments were present in the collection. The best of these specimens has been designated as the lectotype (USNM 43436). All others in the series are paralectotypes (USNM 1458911). Also present in this collection, together with the paralectotypes, are specimens of a species of campanularioid. Other material from the same collection, held in the Fraser Hydroid Collection at the RBCM (BCPM 976-00289-001), is labelled a “co-type” of E. fasciculata. Now in poor condition, it likewise constitutes a paralectotype.

Egmundella fasciculata is listed as valid by Cairns et al. (2002) and WoRMS. The species is known only from the original description, and only from its trophosome.

Notes

Published as part of Calder, Dale R. & Choong, Henry H. C., 2018, Names of hydroids (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa) established by Charles McLean Fraser (1872 - 1946), excluding those from Allan Hancock Expeditions, pp. 1-83 in Zootaxa 4487 (1) on page 25, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4487.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1456161

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
USNM
Event date
1881-08-23
Family
Campanulinidae
Genus
Egmundella
Kingdom
Animalia
Material sample ID
USNM 1458911 , USNM 43436
Order
Leptothecata
Phylum
Cnidaria
Scientific name authorship
Fraser
Species
fasciculata
Taxon rank
species
Type status
holotype , lectotype , paralectotype , syntype
Verbatim event date
1881-08-23
Taxonomic concept label
Egmundella fasciculata Fraser, 1940 sec. Calder & Choong, 2018

References

  • Fraser, C. M. (1940 a) Seven new species and one new genus of hydroids, mostly from the Αtlantic Ocean. Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 88, 575 - 580. [13 September 1940: noted in Contents (page IV) of the journal] https: // doi. org / 10.5479 / si. 00963801.88 - 3090.575
  • Cairns, S. D., Calder, D. R., Brinckmann-Voss, Α., Castro, C. B., Fautin, D. G., Pugh, P. R., Mills, C. E., Jaap, W. C., Αrai, M. N., Haddock, S. H. D. & Opresko, D. M. (2002) Common and scientific names of aquatic invertebrates from the United States and Canada: Cnidaria and Ctenophora. Second Edition. American Fisheries Society Special Publication, 28, 1 - 115.