Aglaophenoides Fraser, 1943a

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 : 61

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4487.1.1
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scientific name	Aglaophenoides Fraser, 1943a
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Genus Aglaophenoides Fraser, 1943a

Aglaophenia Lamouroux, 1812: 184 .

Aglaophenoides Fraser, 1943a: 82 .

Type species. Aglaophenia mammillata Nutting, 1900 , by monotypy.

Current status. Invalid.

Remarks. Fraser (1943a) established Aglaophenoides as a new genus for Aglaophenia mammillata Nutting, 1900 after discovering unusual gonophores in its hydroid. Rather than being protected by a corbula formed in place of a hydrocladium, each gonophore arose from the cavity of a hydrotheca. The trophosome of A. mammillata is otherwise indistinguishable morphologically from Aglaophenia latecarinata Allman, 1877 , and the two forms exist in the same geographic area. Calder (1997) concluded that the unusual gonophores upon which Aglaophenoides is based were abnormalities, and returned its type species to Aglaophenia Lamouroux, 1812 . That conclusion is upheld in WoRMS.