, Vaughan — Nomenclature of West Indian Corals. 57 



of the West Indian branching Porites even before Esper. The 

 references given by Pallas show that he included the West In- 

 dian species. 



The following synonymy will give a history of the restric- 

 tion of the name 



Porites porites (Pallas). 



iTse. Coralliimi, poris stellatis, etc. Seba, Thesaurus, CXI, 

 p. 202, pi. cix, fig. 11 (referred to by Pallas and 

 subsequent authors), 1756. 



1766. Madrepora porites (pars) Pallas, Elench. Zoo})h., p. 324, 



1766. 



1767. Madrejyor a porites (pars) Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. XII, 



p. 1279, 1767. 



1786. Madrepora porites Ellis & Solander, Nat. Hist. Zooph., 

 p. 172, pi. xlvii, fig. 2, 1786. 



1790. Madrepora porites (pars) Gmelin, Linn. Syst. Nat. Ed. 



XIII, p. 3774, 1790. 



1791. Madrepora porites Esper, Ptlanzenth, Th. I, p. 133, 



Madr. pi. xxi, 1791. 



1807. Porites polymorphus (pars) Link, Beschreib, Natur, 

 Samml. Rostock, p. 163, 1807. 



1816. Porites clavaria Lamarck, Hist. Nat. Anim. sans. Vert., 

 II, p. 270, 1816. 



1901. Porites porites Vaughan, Saraml. Geol. Reichs-Mus. 

 Leiden, 2nd Ser. II, p. 73, 1901. 



1901. Porites porites Vaughan, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm. for 

 1900, II, pp. 314-316, pis. xxviii-xxxi, 1901. 



1901. Porites polymorpha Verrill, Trans. Conn. Acad. Sci., 

 XI, p. 158 (pi. xxxi, figs. 3, 3a, not yet pub- 

 lished), 1901. 



1901. Porites polymorpha, Verrill, Am. Jour. Sci., 4th Ser. 

 XIII, p. 77, 1901. 



Linnaeus in the twelfth edition of his Systema Naturae (1767) 

 described the species as ^'■M\adrepora\ subramosa conxposita 



