Nutting, 1900 : 94
Aglaophenia elegans Lamouroux, 1816
Fraser, 1944a : 387
Aglaophenia elegans Nutting, 1900
Aglaophenia elegans Lamouroux, 1816
Aglaophenia elegans
A. raridentata
A. apocarpa Allman, 1877
A. apocarpa
A. lophocarpa Allman, 1877
A. apocarpa
Names of hydroids (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa) established by Charles McLean Fraser (1872 - 1946), excluding those from Allan Hancock Expeditions
Calder, Dale R.
Choong, Henry H. C.
Zootaxa
2018
2018-10-02
4487
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1
83
Fraser, 1944 a
Fraser
1944
[151,622,152,178]
Hydrozoa
Campanulariidae
Aglaophenia
GBIF
Animalia
Leptothecata
59
60
Cnidaria
species
raridentata
Aglaophenia elegans Nutting, 1900: 94, pl. 19, figs. 3, 4 [invalid junior primary homonym of Aglaophenia elegans Lamouroux, 1816]. Aglaophenia raridentata Fraser, 1944a: 387, pl. 83, figs. 376a, b [replacement name for Aglaophenia elegans Nutting, 1900, not Aglaophenia elegans Lamouroux, 1816]. Syntypes.USNM 18645: USA, Florida, Straits of Florida, FloridaKeys, 8 miles( 13 km) off American Shoal Light, State University of Iowa BahamasExpedition of 1893, Sta. 62, 128– 146 m, 29 June 1893; two slides.
USNM 69685: USA, Florida, Straits of Florida, FloridaKeys, 8 miles( 13 km) off American Shoal Light, State University of Iowa BahamasExpedition of 1893, Sta. 62, 128– 146 m, 29 June 1893; ethanol.
Typelocality. USA, Florida: off Sand Key, 70–80 fm ( 128–146 m) ( Nutting 1900). Current status.Invalid.
Remarks.The binomen Aglaophenia raridentatawas proposed by Fraser (1944a)as a new replacement name for Aglaophenia elegans Nutting, 1900(not Aglaophenia elegans Lamouroux, 1816). The two therefore have the same typelocality and the same name-bearing typematerial (ICZN Arts. 67.8, 72.7). A degree of uncertainty exists about specimens that qualify as name-bearing typesof new species described by Nutting (1900), including Aglaophenia elegans. A procedure was established by him whereby “…three series of slides [were prepared] from the same typespecimen… These series were then distributed to the United StatesNational Museum, the Museum of the State University of Iowa, and the private collection of the author” ( Nutting 1900: 58). In Nutting’s monograph, catalogue numbers were provided for slides at the “USNM” (NMNH) and at the university museum at Iowa(designated as “ Typeslides”), but not for the “ typespecimen” from which the slides were made, nor for slides in the Nutting Collection. Unless other evidence is found, the original “ typespecimen” cannot clearly be identified as such. The NMNH online database lists as typesonly those specimens on numbered slides. In his account of Aglaophenia elegans, Nutting (1900)explicitly assigned typestatus to material on slides at the NMNH (USNM 18645), at the Museum of the State University of Iowa( No. 15354), and in his personal collection (unnumbered). The latter two collections are likely to have been sent to the NMNH in a transfer of collections from Iowaafter Nutting’s death ( Calder 2004: 23). It is unclear whether those slides were combined to form part of the syntypematerial listed above. Meanwhile, material of the species in ethanol at the NMNH (USNM 69685) is part of the same collection as the syntypeslides, but it is not classified in the online database as part of the typeseries. It is regarded here as part of the syntypeseries.
Aglaophenia elegansand its objective synonym A. raridentataare subjective junior synonyms of A. apocarpaAllman, 1877, a hydroid described from the same area (Sand Key) in the Straits of Florida( Bedot 1921; Bogle 1975; Cairns et al. 2002). As for the binomen A. apocarpa, confusion persists over whether it or A. lophocarpaAllman, 1877has precedence when the two are considered synonyms. As First Reviser (ICZN Art. 24.2), Bedot (1921)assigned precedence to the name A. apocarpa(see Calder 1997: 54).
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[199,1133,556,581]
United States of America
137
Sand Key
59
60
1
Florida
holotype