A revision of Ernst Haeckel's determinations of a collection of Medusae belonging to the Zoological Museum of Copenhagen
Kramp, P.L. (1955). A revision of Ernst Haeckel's determinations of a collection of Medusae belonging to the Zoological Museum of Copenhagen, in: Papers in Marine Biology and Oceanography. Dedicated to Henry Bryant Bigelow, By His Former Students and Associates on the occasion of The Twenty-fifth Anniversary of the Founding of The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution 1955. Deep-Sea Research (1953), 3(Supplement): pp. 149-168 In: (1955). Papers in Marine Biology and Oceanography. Dedicated to Henry Bryant Bigelow, By His Former Students and Associates on the occasion of The Twenty-fifth Anniversary of the Founding of The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution 1955. Deep-Sea Research (1953), 3(Supplement). Pergamon Press: London & New York. 498 pp., more In: Deep-Sea Research (1953). Pergamon: Oxford; New York. ISSN 0146-6291; e-ISSN 1878-2485, more |   |
| Abstract | The collection of medusae sent from the Zoological Museum of the University of Copenhagen to Ernst Haeckel for identification comprised 231 numbers; from 166 of these the specimens are still in our collection and are the subject of this revision. Specimens from 12 localities were not identified with certainty by Haeckel; they belong to 9 different species, 6 of which are described in previous literature, whereas 3 species have been described after the publication of Haeckel's monograph. In the collection and the accompanying list 54 species are provided with generic and specific name in Haeckel's hand-writing. After the revision the actual number of species is reduced to 37. 26 species are designated as new and are represented by their type-specimens or cotypes; 5 of these may be retained as valid species, 3 of them with unaltered generic name; the remaining 21 of Haeckel's new species belong to 15 species previously described. Among the 28 species, which are not marked as new, 10 are synonyms, and 8 are erroneously identified. |
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