Meganema Fraser 1939
- Dataset
- Names of hydroids (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa) established by Charles McLean Fraser (1872 - 1946), excluding those from Allan Hancock Expeditions
- Rank
- GENUS
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Cnidaria
- class
- Alphaproteobacteria
- order
- Rhizobiales
- family
- Methylobacteriaceae
- genus
- Meganema
discussion
Remarks. Meganema Fraser, 1939 b: 60 is an invalid junior homonym of Meganema Conrad, 1868: 267 (Mollusca). It has been regarded as a junior synonym of Lafoeina M. Sars, in G. O. Sars, 1874 by some authors (e. g., Fraser 1947 a: 239) and of Keratosum Hargitt, 1909 by others (e. g., Calder 1991: 10). Keratosum has been included as a junior synonym of Lafoeina in some works (e. g., Schuchert 2001 a: 59; WoRMS), but the two genera are considered distinct here based on differences in gonophore type and colony form. Actual junior synonyms of Keratosum include Levinsenia Hadži, 1917 [not Levinsenia Mésnil, 1897 (Polychaeta) or Levinsenia Stossich, 1899 (Trematoda) or Levinsenia Bale, 1915 (Hydrozoa)] and Eupoma Stechow, 1920. With synonyms available, it seems unnecessary to provide a replacement name for the junior homonym of Fraser.
materials_examined
Type species. Meganema claviformis Fraser, 1939 b, by monotypy. Current status. Invalid.
Name
- Homonyms
- Meganema Fraser 1939