Halecium minor Fraser, 1935b

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 : 33

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.5968404

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/0392282A-FFC6-FFC4-AEC1-5C011B8CF855

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scientific name

Halecium minor Fraser, 1935b
status

 

Halecium minor Fraser, 1935b View in CoL

Halecium minor Fraser, 1935b: 108 View in CoL , pl. 2, figs. 6a–e [invalid junior primary homonym of Halecium halecinum var. minor Pictet, 1893 View in CoL ].

Halecium permodicum Calder, 2017: 54 View in CoL [replacement name for Halecium minor Fraser, 1935b View in CoL , not Halecium halecinum var. minor Pictet, 1893 View in CoL ].

Syntypes. BCPM 976-00485-001 : Japan, Sagami Bay , Hayama, 25 August 1933, on an anthozoan, labelled " type "; dry.

BCPM 976-00485-002 : Japan, Sagami Bay , Hayama, 25 August 1933; slide.

Lectotype, by present designation. RBCM 976-00485-003 : Japan, Sagami Bay , Hayama, 25 August 1933, one detached colony (largest and best trophosome of the species on the slide), in good condition, 5 mm high, without gonothecae; slide.

Paralectotypes. BCPM 976-00485-001 : Japan, Sagami Bay , Hayama, 25 August 1933, on an anthozoan, colony desiccated, labelled " type "; dry.

BCPM 976-00485-002 : Japan, Sagami Bay , Hayama, 25 August 1933, several colonies or colony fragments, in fair to good condition, one with a female gonotheca; slide.

Type locality. Japan: Sagami Bay , Hayama, 2–3 m, on an anthozoan ( Fraser 1935b).

Current status. Invalid.

Remarks. Fraser (1935b) described Halecium minor from material sent to him by Dr. Hirotaro Hattori on behalf of Emperor Hirohito of Japan. He did not designate a name-bearing type of the species in that account. Two samples of the species exist in the Fraser Hydroid Collection at the RBCM, one of them dry in a vial (BCPM 976- 00485-001) and the other on a microslide (BCPM 976-00485-002). Both are listed above as syntypes, with the first one containing a label marked “ type ”. The species is not represented in the Hirohito Hydroid Collection at the NMNS ( Hirohito 1995: 16). The lectotype of H. minor designated here (RBCM 976-00485-003) is a specimen, in good condition, on a slide (BCPM 976-00485-002). It is distinguished in having the largest and best trophosome (5 mm high) of the species on the slide. Paralectotypes include other specimens of the same species on the slide, as well as the desiccated material labelled “ type ” (BCPM 976-00485-001). Notably, one tiny paralectotype colony or colony fragment near the lectotype on the slide bears a female gonotheca with two gonothecal hydranths. That specimen was otherwise too inadequate to be assigned name-bearing status. The hydranth of a tubulariid and bryozoan fragments are also present on the mount.

Halecium minor Fraser, 1935b View in CoL is an invalid junior primary homonym of Halecium halecinum var. minor Pictet, 1893 View in CoL , currently recognized at the rank of species, as H. minor Pictet, 1893 View in CoL . The binomen of Fraser has been replaced by Halecium permodicum Calder, 2017 View in CoL .

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Cnidaria

Class

Hydrozoa

Order

Leptothecata

Family

Haleciidae

Genus

Halecium

Loc

Halecium minor Fraser, 1935b

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

Halecium minor

Fraser, 1935b : 108
Loc

Halecium permodicum

Calder, 2017 : 54
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