Coryne crassa Fraser, 1914a

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 : 21

Coryne crassa Fraser, 1914a

Coryne crassa Fraser, 1914a: 113 , pl. 2, figs. 3Α–C.

Syntypes. BCPM 976-00129-001 : USA, Washington, Friday Harbor ; slide.

BCPM 976-00129-002 : USA, Washington, Friday Harbor ; slide.

Lectotype, by present designation. RBCM 976-00129-003: USA, Washington, Friday Harbor, one colony (middle colony on slide BCPM 976-00129-002), 1.5 cm high, in fairly good condition, with gonophores; slide.

Paralectotypes. BCPM 976-00129-001 : USA, Washington, Friday Harbor , several fragments, some with gonophores; slide.

BCPM 976-00129-002 : USA, Washington, Friday Harbor , two colony fragments, one to the left and one to the right of the lectotype specimen in the middle, some with gonophores; slide.

Type locality. USA, Washington: Friday Harbor ( Fraser 1914a).

Current status. Valid.

Remarks. Although Fraser (1914a) did not designate a name-bearing type in first describing Coryne crassa , syntypes of it exist, on slides, in the Fraser Hydroid Collection at the RBCM (BCPM 976-00129-001; BCPM 976- 00129-002). The best available specimen, on the second of these slides (BCPM 976-00129-002), is selected here as the lectotype and is assigned a new catalogue number (RBCM 976-00129-003). Three fragments of colonies exist on the slide, with the lectotype being in the middle.

Earlier, Schuchert (2001b) examined the slide bearing the lectotype and provided a re-description of the species. It was included by him in a group that included C. hincksii Bonnevie, 1898 and C. sagamiensis Hirohito, 1988 . The species has subsequently been reported from China ( Gao 1956; Xu et al. 2014) and from Race Rocks, British Columbia (Brinckmann-Voss 1996).