Campanularia abyssa Fraser, 1940a

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, Zootaxa 4487 (1), pp. 1-83 : 65

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4487.1.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:524B23B9-8EAA-4BD6-8937-A1B8F1C057B9

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5968572

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/0392282A-FFA6-FFA4-AEC1-5E661D77FC40

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scientific name

Campanularia abyssa Fraser, 1940a
status

 

? Campanularia abyssa Fraser, 1940a View in CoL

? Campanularia abyssa Fraser, 1940a: 576 View in CoL , pl. 32, figs. 2a, b.

Holotype. USNM 43434 About USNM : USA, Massachusetts, SE of Nantucket Shoals , Albatross Sta. 2041, 39°22’50”N, 68°25’W, 19 July 1883, deep sea trawl, several detached fragments of what is likely a single colony, the longest of them 2 cm high, in fairly poor condition, without gonophores, labelled “ type ”; ethanol. GoogleMaps

Type locality. USA, Massachusetts: continental slope SE of Cape Cod , 39°22’50”N, 68°25’W, 1608 fm (2941 m) ( Fraser 1940a). GoogleMaps

Current status. Valid, but see Remarks below.

Remarks. A specimen at the NMNH (USNM 43434) was designated by Fraser (1940a) as the “ type ” of Campanularia abyssa . That hydroid is recorded as a holotype in the NMNH online database (ICZN Art. 73.1.1). No specimens of the species were listed as part of the Fraser Hydroid Collection by Arai (1977), and no records of it exist in the RBCM online database.

Fraser (1940a) provisionally assigned C. abyssa to the genus Campanularia Lamarck, 1816 , but was uncertain it was even referable to the family Campanulariidae Johnston, 1837 . No gonosome was present and its identity remains obscure, although it seems more likely to be a lafoeoid than a campanulariid. WoRMS is followed in simply retaining the name C. abyssa for it until its identity can be better established.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Cnidaria

Class

Hydrozoa

Order

Leptothecata

Family

Campanulariidae

Genus

Campanularia

Loc

Campanularia abyssa Fraser, 1940a

Calder, Dale R. & Choong, Henry H. C. 2018
2018
Loc

Campanularia abyssa

Fraser, 1940a : 576
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