ALCYONARIEN VON DEN PHILIPPINEN 
I. DIE GATTUNG ALCYONIUM LINN.AZUS + 
Von H., LiirrscH WAGER 
EINE TAFEL UND FUNF TEXTFIGUREN 
Das mir von Herrn Professor Kiikenthal zur Bearbeitung 
anvertraute Material von den Philippinen enthalt von der Gat- 
tung Alcyonium nur Vertreter der Untergattung Eualcyonium 
_ Broch, wihrend von den beiden andern Untergattungen Metal- 
cyonum und Erythropodium keine Exemplare vorliegen. 
Nachdem ich bereits friiher in meinen Beitragen * die Alteren 
Arten der Gattung kritisch untersucht habe, konnte ich an der 
Hand eines reichen mir vorliegenden Materials in eine umfas- 
sendere Priifung der einzelnen Arten eintreten, und erkenne 
nunmehr 19 sichere Arten als zu Hualcyonium gehorig an, zu 
denen noch 5 unsichere Arten treten. 
‘ This is the first of a series of four papers on Philippine Alcyonaria of 
the family Alcyoniidez. These papers were prepared under the supervision 
_ of Dr. Willy Kiikenthal, director of the Zoélogical Museum, Berlin, and the 
world’s greatest authority on the classification of the Alcyonaria. They 
are particularly important in that they deal with forms found everywhere in 
the Islands on shallow reefs and banks. With the Notes on Philippine 
Aleyonaria, by Prof. S. F. Light, of the University of the Philippines, 
they give us an excellent start toward a knowledge of our rich littoral 
aleyonarian fauna. The keys to species, which make these papers partic- 
ularly useful, are given in English as well as in German for the convenience 
of those not familiar with the latter language. As time permits, it is 
planned to treat other genera in a somewhat similar manner. 
The Philippine material treated in these papers is from the zodlogical 
collection of the department of zodlogy, College of Liberal Arts, Univer- 
sity of the Philippines. It was collected for the most part by S. F. Light 
on the joint expeditions of the University of the Philippines and the 
Bureau of Science to Port Galera, on the northeast coast of Mindoro, in 
1912, and to Taytay, on the east coast of Palawan, in 1913. A few of the 
specimens were collected by Dr. L. E. Griffin and Prof. L. D. Wharton in 
the Bantayan Islands, near Cebu Island—-THE EpITors. 
* Beitrige zu einer Revision der Familie Aleyoniidae, Arch. f. Natur- 
geschichte Abt. A, Heft 10 (1914). 
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