Sertularella albida Kirchenpauer 1884

• Main Author: Choong, Henry H. C.
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2015
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Cnidaria; Hydrozoa; Leptothecata; Sertulariidae; Sertularella; Sertularella albida; Bering Sea; San Juan; Canada; Pacific; British Columbia; Queen Charlotte; Waldron; Archipelago; Kamchatka; Alaska; Aleutian Islands
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/6093728; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6093728

Sertularella albida Kirchenpauer, 1884 (Figure 1) Sertularella robusta Clark, 1877: 225, pl. 13, figs. 32–33 [not Sertularella robusta Coughtrey 1876: 300]. Sertularella albida Kirchenpauer, 1884: 42.— Nutting, 1904: 86, pl. 19, figs. 1–2.— Linko, 1912: 116.— Fraser, 1937: 151, pl. 33, fig. 176.—Naumov, 1969: 375, fig. 239. Material. CANADA: British Columbia. 54 ˚07’00”N, 132 ˚06’ 42 ”W, 0 4. v. 1961, 18.3 meters. Hydrocauli, branches, without gonothecae, ROMIZ B 4027. Reported distribution. North of the Sea of Japan in the Tartar Strait (=Strait of Tartary, Russia) (Naumov 1969); across the Bering Sea from Kamchatka to the Schumagin (=Shumagin) Islands (Kirchenpauer 1884). Northeastern Pacific: Alaskan coast (Clark 1877); Queen Charlotte Islands (=Haida Gwaii), western portion of Houston-Stewart Channel (Fraser 1936 b; 1937); as far south as Matia and Waldron islands, San Juan archipelago (Fraser 1914). Remarks. This species was originally described as Sertularella robusta from the Aleutian Islands, Alaska by Clark (1877). That binomen is a permanently invalid junior primary homonym of S. robusta Coughtrey, 1876 (Calder & Stephens 1997). Kirchenpauer (1884) proposed the valid current name of the taxon, S. albida. Published as part of Choong, Henry H. C., 2015, Hydroids of the genus Sertularella (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa: Sertulariidae) from the Pacific coast of Canada in the collection of the Royal Ontario Museum, with descriptions of four new species, pp. 387-408 in Zootaxa 3925 (3) on pages 389-390, DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.3925.3.4, http://zenodo.org/record/236318