Halecium crassicaule Fraser 1947

Dataset
Names of hydroids (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa) established by Charles McLean Fraser (1872 - 1946), excluding those from Allan Hancock Expeditions: Rank
SPECIES

Classification

kingdom
Animalia: phylum
Cnidaria: class
Hydrozoa: order
Leptothecata: family
Haleciidae: genus
Halecium: species
Halecium crassicaule

description

USNM 70881: USA, Alaska, Alaska, Alexander Archipelago, Glacier Bay; ethanol.

discussion

Remarks. Fraser (1944 a: 201) recognized that the name Halecium robustum Nutting, 1901 a was preoccupied by several other binomena, including H. robustum Verrill, 1873. Unaware that Nutting (1901 b) had already discovered the homonymy and provided H. harrimani as a new replacement name for his H. robustum, Fraser (1947 a: 273) proposed H. crassicaule as a nomen novum for the same taxon. As a junior objective synonym of Nutting’s H. robustum and H. harrimani, Fraser’s H. crassicaule has the same name-bearing types (ICZN Art. 72.7). The name H. harrimani is now taken to be the valid name of the species (Calder 2004; WoRMS). Two collections of Halecium robustum Nutting, 1901 a (= H. harrimani) from Glacier Bay, Alaska, are listed in the online database of the NMNH. Only one of them is listed as syntype material (USNM 71169). The second (USNM 70881), having similar collection data, has not been included as a name-bearing type. It, too, is regarded here as part of the syntype series. No other type material of the species is known to exist. From published records, H. harrimani is presently known only from the type locality (Fraser 1947 a).

materials_examined

Type locality. USA, Alaska: Glacier Bay, Berg Inlet (Nutting 1901 a). Current status. Invalid.

Name

Homonyms: Halecium crassicaule Fraser 1947