Lictorella carolina Fraser 1911

Lictorella carolina Fraser, 1911 Lictorella carolina Fraser, 1911: 53, pl. 4, figs. 3–5. Zygophylax carolina.— Rees & Vervoort, 1987: 71. Zygophylax carolinus Cairns et al., 1991: 24. Holotype. See Remarks below. Type locality. USA, Washington: San Juan Archipelago (Fraser 1911). Current status....

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Calder, Dale R., Choong, Henry H. C.
Format: Other/Unknown Material
Language:unknown
Published: 2018
Subjects:
Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Cnidaria
Hydrozoa
Leptothecata
Lafoeidae
Lictorella
San Juan
Gulf of Alaska
Trinity Islands
Archipelago
Alaska
Online Access:https://zenodo.org/record/5968429
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5968429
Description
Summary:Lictorella carolina Fraser, 1911 Lictorella carolina Fraser, 1911: 53, pl. 4, figs. 3–5. Zygophylax carolina.— Rees & Vervoort, 1987: 71. Zygophylax carolinus Cairns et al., 1991: 24. Holotype. See Remarks below. Type locality. USA, Washington: San Juan Archipelago (Fraser 1911). Current status. Valid, as Zygophylax carolina (Fraser, 1911). Remarks. Fraser (1911) described Lictorella carolina from a single detached specimen that may not have constituted a complete colony. Rees & Vervoort (1987) considered an “imperfectly preserved specimen labelled: ‘ Lictorella carolina Fraser. San Juan. T. Kincaid’" in the NMNH to be type material and probably the holotype of the species (No. 70625, with No. 34084 on a separate label). The collection could not be located in the online database of the NMNH under either number during this study. Neither could the specimen be found during a visit by one of us (DRC) to the NMNH in September 2017. Hydroids of L. carolina in the Fraser Hydroid Collection at the RBCM (BCPM 976-00334-001: Trinity Islands, 20 August 1914, 91 m, dry; BCPM 976-00335-001: Gulf of Alaska) (Arai 1977) are not types. Additional information on morphology of this species, beyond the original description, exists in Fraser (1914b). Rees & Vervoort (1987) remarked that the hydroid, as Zygophylax carolina, was “insufficiently described” and founded on sterile material. Nevertheless, Z. carolina has been listed as valid in Cairns et al. (2002, as Z. carolinus), Antsulevich (2015), and WoRMS. 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 37, DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.4487.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1456161

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