Fig. 44. 



FAMILY XL TUBULIPORID.E. 



30. TuBULiPORA,* Lamarck. 

 Character. Polyindom attached hy a partial adhesion of 

 the base, sometimes crustaceous : cells placed on a calcareous basis, 

 arranged in rotes, long and cylindrical, separate, with a round 

 erect aperture. — Polypes ascidian. f 



* Base subcircular, cupped. (Discopora, Fleming.) 

 1. T. v\T\^K, aperture of the cells round and toothless. Pallas. 

 Plate xxxi. Fig. 1-3. 

 Caryophyllus sive Fuiigites minimus tubulosus littons Ariminensis, Plane. 



de Conch, min. not. 26, tab. 2, no. 9 Madrepora verrucaria, Lin. Syst. 



1272. Pall. Zooph. var. /3. 281. Turt. Gmel. iv. 616. Turt. Brit. 

 Faun- 204. Stew. Elem. ii. 426. Hogys Stock. 38. Millepora ver- 

 rucaria, Ellis a-nA Soland. Zooph. 137 — Tubulipora patina, Lam. Anim. 

 s. Vert. ii. 1C3. 2de edit. ii. 244. Risso, L'Europ. Merid. v, 338. 

 Johnston in Trans. Newc. See. ii. 269, pi. 9, fig. 8 — T. patene, Blainv. 



* From tubulus — a tube, and jrafoc — a passage. 



t See " Memoire sur les Polypes du genre des Tubulipores, par M. H. Milne- 

 Edwards," in Ann. des. Sc. Nat. Part. Zool. viii. 321. 



