ISSN 0083-7903, 76 (Print) ISSN 2538-1016; 76 (Online) Catalogue of Type and Figured Specimens in the New Zealand Oceanographic Institute by ELLIOT W. DAWSON New Zealand Oceanographic Institute Memoir 76 1979 NEW ZEALAND DEPARTMENT OF SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH Catalogue of Type and Figured Specimens in the New Zealand Oceanographic Institute by ELLIOT W. DAWSON Nev. Zealand Oceanographic Institute, Wellington New Zealand Oceanographic Institute Memoir 76 1979 This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ Citation according to "World List of Scientific Periodicals" (4th edn): Mem. N.Z. oceanogr. Inst. 76 ISSN 0083-7903 Received for publication : October 1974 (Revised December 1978) Crown Copyright I 979 E.C. KEATING, GOVERNMENT PRINTER, WELLINGTON, NEW ZEALAND - 1979 This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ CONTENTS Page ABSTRACT 5 INTRODUCTION 6 Conditions for the loan of types 6 Designation and dispersal of type specimens 7 Use of the catalogue 8 Future additions 8 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 8 SYSTEMATIC LISTING OF TYPE AND FIGURED SPECIMENS 9 CATALOGUE 15 Phylum Protozoa 15 Porifera 23 Coelenterata 24 Annelida 30 Sipunculida 31 Arthropoda 31 Mollusca 60 Brachiopoda 67 Bryozoa 67 Echinodermata 69 Chordata 89 REFERENCES 94 STATION DATA 103 This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ Catalogue of Type and Figured Specimens in the New Zealand Oceanographic Institute by Elliot W. Dawson New Zealand Oceanographic Institute, Wellington ABSTRACT This catalogue records 290 taxa represented by primary types (holotypes or paratypes) and 273 figured specimens held in the New Zealand Oceanographic Institute, Wellington. It is complete to December 1978. The species are arranged in alphabetical order under their appropriate systematic groupings. Each entry includes information about the original description, registration numbers, type locality, and disposition of type material. Information additional to the original description is included wherever appropriate. Conditions of loan of type (and other) material in the custody of the N.Z. Oceanographic Institute are outlined. Instructions for authors wishing to designate types from loan material are also given. Zealand Oceanographic Institute Memoir 76. 1979 3-7903 This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ 5 INTRODUCTION Since the establishment of the New Zealand Identified and figured specimens may be equally as Oceanographic Institute in 1954, a significant quantity valuable as classical "types" (cf. Simpson 1940), and of marine biological material, mainly benthic, has been deserve the greatest attention and curation. As Ander­ collected. The Institute has extensive collections of ben­ son (1973 : 39) has so aptly remarked : "A specimen is thic animals from the Antarctic (especially from the unique in a way that a publication is not. A book or arti­ Ross Sea and off the Balleny Islands), the New Zealand cle is called "published" when it is generally available, sector of the Subantarctic (the Campbell Plateau, the which usually means distributed as a number of Macquarie Ridge and associated southern islands), from duplicate copies. Specimens are not identical and should comprehensive benthic surveys of the New Zealand not be regarded as duplicates, even though certain kinds shelf and slope, and from the Southwest Pacific (in­ of information can be obtained from more than one cluding Tahiti, the Cook Islands, Tonga and Fiji). specimen. Other kinds of information can be obtained There is also some planktonic and intertidal material. only from a particular specimen, and each specimen has To date some 5,000biological stations have been carried a unique combination of properties." Material once out by the Institute. As a consequence of the publica­ described is not necessarily "finished with" and care tions based on this material, the Institute is becoming an must be taken to see that "duplicates" or "published" increasingly important repository for types and figured specimens are not disposed of without proper considera­ specimens. tion of future needs. For example, the specimens of shelf echinoids forming the basis of part of McKnight's A questionnaire sent to 21 New Zealand institutions by (1969) survey of the New Zealand shelf fauna have been the Art Galleries and Museums Association of New and will continue to be used for further studies and Zealand in 1968 showed that about 21,000 type subsequent reference. In particular, quantitative benthic specimens (37% being fossils) were held in 6 public biomass estimates are now being made based on bulk museums, 10 university departments and 5 branches of collections of some years earlier. It is essential, the D.S.I.R. Public museums held 49% of the total. therefore, that splitting or subdivision of ecologically­ Oceanographic Institute was listed (as at August 1969) collected samples be controlled. as holding 61 type specimens (AGMANZ 1969). The number of taxa represented by primary type specimens We are anxious to see the maximum use made of In­ (holotypes or paratypes) listed in this catalogue (as at stitute material but we are equally concerned to ensure December 1978) is 290: Protozoa 19, Porifera 7, that those receiving it on loan add to its value rather �oelenterata 18, Polychaeta 4, Crustacea 110 (including than detract from it by careless handling, destruction of Cirripedia 1, Copepoda 37, Cumacea 7, lsopoda 24, labels and inadequate curation. Every institution Amphipoda 33, Mysidacea 1, Paguridea 2, Brachyura 4, holding collections has had unfortunate experiences Thalassinidea 1), Mollusca 22, Bryozoa 17, Brachiopoda with loans and the problem continues to be a very real 2, Pycnogonida 7, Echinodermata 72 (including one. Accordingly, the following conditions for the loan Crinoidea 17, Echinoidea 11, Asteroidea 32, of biological material and of type specimens particular­ Ophiuroidea 10, Holothuroidea 2), Pisces 2. Figured ly, modelled on those formulated by the N .z. specimens (or species lots) total 273. Geological Survey, D.S.I.R. (cf. Fleming 1964), will ap­ ply. Attention is also drawn to the Recommendations The Institute encourages the use of its collections by 72A-D given in the International Code of Zoological suitably qualified and responsible workers, and subse­ Nomenclature (ICZN 1974). quent sections of this introduction detail the conditions of loan and the appropriate methods of designation and dispersal of material by authors of new taxa. Examples of studies on the material housed at the In­ CONDITIONS FOR THE LOAN OF stitute are to be found in "The Marine Fauna of New Zealand", a series within the Memoirs of the N.Z. TYPES AND FIGURED SPECIMENS Oceanographic Institute (originally within the N.Z. FROM THE D.S.I.R. Bulletin series), which was designed especially N.Z. OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTE, DSIR to document the rich and valuable collections obtained around New Zealand in working by discrete In general, workers should consult type material on the monographs or reviews towards an overall "handbook" lnstitute's premises. However, reasonable requests for of the marine fauna of New Zealand. Contributors to loans will be considered favourably provided the the "Marine Fauna" series are encouraged to include undermentioned conditions are met. keys for identifications, and commentaries on ecological and zoogeographical aspects as well as (1) Requests for loans must be made in writing on of­ systematic descriptions of the groups treated. ficial letterhead paper to establish credentials by senior research workers, or in the case of student The collection of such material is an expensive and or junior workers, by the Head of their depart­ sometimes difficult procedure, often involving a great ment or institute who accepts the responsibility on deal of ship time (the cost of which is usually very much their behalf. The special need for types to be ex­ underestimated by non-oceanographers) and subse­ amined should be stated. Loans will not be made quent laboratory sorting and curation. to individuals at private addresses. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ 6 (2) Wherever possible, paratypes, metatypes, or labelled as to their status. Retention of any topotypes should be requested. Holotypes may be duplicate specimens (including paratypes) is per­ lent in special circumstances. mitted only by definite arrangement. ( 3 ) Holotypes and lectotypes of micro forms (i.e., All holotypes and at least one paratype for each Foraminifera, coccoliths, etc.) are not available (2) new taxon will be kept by the Institute. The in­ for loan but topotypes etc. usually can be sup­ stitution to which the worker belongs may retain plied. paratype material by prior arrangement and other paratypes should be deposited in national collec­ (4) Types or figured specimens not personally taken tions such as the National Museum of New will be sent by registered or insured mail. They Zealand, Wellington, the British Museum must be returned in the same manner. Special at­ (Natural History), London, or the National tention must be given to careful packing. Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institu­ Breakages in transit from the Institute must be tion, Washington, or in other approved institu­ noted on the receipt form, and any subsequent tions. Prior approval for the dispersal of damage by the borrower must be notified. paratypes must be obtained from the Director of the Institute before any manuscript is sent for (5) Loans will be recorded on official numbered publication.