Fig. 45. 



FAMILY XII. CELLEPORID^. 



32. Cellepora,* Otho Fabricius. 

 Character. Polypidom calcareous, cellular, irregularly loh- 

 ed or ramous, formed of urceolate cells heaped together or arrang- 

 ed in quincunx. — Polypes ascidian. 



1. C. vvMicosA, glomerous, rough, porous ; cells sub orbicular, 

 the mouth round toith a produced marginal process. J . Ellis. 

 Plate xxxii. Fig. 1, 2, 3. 

 Porous Eschara, Ellis, Corall. 75, no. 7, pi. 27, fig. /, F, and 72, pi. 



30, fig. d, D. Tubipora verrucosa, Lin. Syst. edit. 10, 789 



Cellepora pumicosa, Lin. Syst. 1286. Mull. Zool. Dan. prod. 253. 

 Turt. Gmel. iv. 640. Berk. Syn. i. 212. Wern. Mem. i. 560. Turt. 

 Brit. Faun. 206. Stew. Elem. ii. 428, pi. 12, fig. 16, 17, copied 

 from Ellis. Lam. Anim. s. Vert. ii. 170. 2de edit. ii. 256. Corall. 

 40. Boic, Vers, iii. 147, pi. 3, fig. 3. Flem. Brit. Anim. 532. Hogg's 

 Stock. 37. Stark, Elem. ii. 436. Johnston in Trans. Newe. Soc. ii. 



267. Templeton in Mag. Nat Hist. ix. 469 C verrucosa, Lin. Syst 



1286. Fabric. Faun. Groenl. 434 C. spinosa, Turt. Brit. Faun. 205. 



Millepora pumicosa, Pall- Elench. 254. Ellis and Soland. Zooph. 



135. Turt. Gmel. iv. 639. Wern. Mem. i. 560. Stew. Elem. ii. 428. 



Flustra buUata? Ellis and Soland- Zooph. 16. Stew. Elem. ii. 



436. Turt. Gmel. iv. 664 Le cellepore pouce et C. verruqueux, 



Blainv. Actinolog. 443-4. 

 Hab. Found on the stems of various corallines, on stones, and on 

 the roots of Fuci, common. 



The cells, by their conglomeration, form a porous friable calcareous 



' From cella a cell, and 5r«{of. 

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