Zootaxa 4487 (1): 001–083 ISSN 1175-5326 (print edition) http://www.mapress.com/j/zt/ Monograph ZOOTAXA Copyright © 2018 Magnolia Press ISSN 1175-5334 (online edition) https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4487.1.1 http://zoobank.org/urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:524B23B9-8EAA-4BD6-8937-A1B8F1C057B9 ZOOTAXA 4487 Names of hydroids (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa) established by Charles McLean Fraser (1872–1946), excluding those from Allan Hancock Expeditions DALE R. CALDER1,2 & HENRY H.C. CHOONG3,4 1Department of Natural History, Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queen’s Park, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 2C6. E-mail: [email protected] 2Research Associate, Royal British Columbia Museum, 675 Belleville Street, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada V8W 9W2. 3Royal British Columbia Museum, 675 Belleville Street, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada V8W 9W2. E-mail: [email protected] 4Research Associate, Department of Natural History, Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queen’s Park, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 2C6. Magnolia Press Auckland, New Zealand Accepted by A. Collins: 6 Jun. 2018; published: 2 Oct. 2018 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0 DALE R. CALDER & HENRY H.C. CHOONG Names of hydroids (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa) established by Charles McLean Fraser (1872–1946), excluding those from Allan Hancock Expeditions (Zootaxa 4487) 83 pp.; 30 cm. 2 Oct. 2018 ISBN 978-1-77670-478-1 (paperback) ISBN 978-1-77670-479-8 (Online edition) FIRST PUBLISHED IN 2018 BY Magnolia Press P.O. Box 41-383 Auckland 1346 New Zealand e-mail: [email protected] http://www.mapress.com/j/zt © 2018 Magnolia Press ISSN 1175-5326 (Print edition) ISSN 1175-5334 (Online edition) 2 · Zootaxa 4487 (1) © 2018 Magnolia Press CALDER & CHOONG Table of contents Abstract . 5 Introduction . 5 Materials and methods. 7 Systematic Account . 9 Phylum Cnidaria Verrill, 1865 . 9 Order Anthoathecata Cornelius, 1992 . 9 Family Oceaniidae Eschscholtz, 1829 . 9 Corydendrium fruticosum Fraser, 1914a . 9 Turritopsis fascicularis Fraser, 1943a . 10 Family Bougainvilliidae Lütken, 1850 . 10 Bimeria brevis Fraser, 1918c. 10 Bimeria pusilla Fraser, 1925 . 11 Bimeria tenella Fraser, 1925 . 11 Bimeria tunicata Fraser, 1943a . 11 Bougainvillia inaequalis Fraser, 1944a . 12 Family Bythotiaridae Maas, 1905 . 13 Genus Crypta Fraser, 1911 . 13 Genus Endocrypta Fraser, 1912a. 13 Crypta huntsmani Fraser, 1911 . 13 Family Hydractiniidae L. Agassiz, 1862 . 14 Hydractinia aggregata Fraser, 1911 . 14 Hydractinia armata Fraser, 1940b . 15 Hydractinia carolinae Fraser, 1912c . 15 Hydractinia laevispina Fraser, 1922a . 16 Hydractinia valens Fraser, 1941b . 16 Family Corymorphidae Allman, 1872 . 16 Corymorpha adventitia Fraser, 1941b . 16 Lampra uvularis Fraser, 1941b . 17 Family Hypolytidae Fraser, 1943b . 18 Family Tubulariidae Fleming, 1828 . 18 Ectopleura grandis Fraser, 1944a . 18 Tubularia aurea Fraser, 1936a . 19 Tubularia crassa Fraser, 1941b. 20 Family Corynidae Johnston, 1837 . 20 Coryne corrugata Fraser, 1925 . 20 Coryne crassa Fraser, 1914a . 21 Family Acaulidae Fraser, 1924b . 21 Family Symplectaneidae Fraser, 1941b. 22 Genus Symplectanea Fraser, 1941b. 22 Symplectanea bracteata Fraser, 1941b . 22 Family Eudendriidae L. Agassiz, 1862 . 23 Eudendrium biseriale Fraser, 1935b . 23 Eudendrium irregulare Fraser, 1922a . ..