30 ALLAN HANCOCK ATLANTIC EXPEDITION REPORT 



A very well known species of world wide distribution, which until 

 recently has been generally attributed to the Eschara spongites of Pallas, 

 1766. Smitt, Florida; Levinsen, St. Thomas and St. John of the Virgin 

 Islands; Osburn, Tortugas Islands, Curagao and Porto Rico; Canu and 

 Bassler, Gulf of Mexico, north of Cuba and east of Yucatan. It is a 

 warm water species and is common from Florida to Brazil. 



Distribution.— ?>\:sit\ons A14-39, A32-39, A42-39, A52-39, At502, 

 At504, and At529. These stations place the locations at Caledonia Bay, 

 Panama; Cape la Vela, Colombia; Aruba Island and the Gulf of 

 Venezuela at 5 to 7 1 f ms. 



Genus BUFFONELLARIA Canu and Bassler 1927 

 Buff onellaria reticulata Canu and Bassler, 1928 



Canu and Bassler 1928:89. 



The authors of this species were quite correct in calling it "bizarre." 

 The high, irregular reticulations of the frontal olocyst and the thin- 

 walled, flaring, infundibuliform peristome give it an appearance quite 

 unlike any other species. The writer cannot add anything to the original 

 description, except to state that the avicularian mandible is short-pointed 

 and directed forward, or occasionally more or less laterally. It has 

 hitherto been known only from the type locality, west of Florida in the 

 Gulf of Mexico. 



Distribution. — Stations At502, At505, At512, and At528. These 

 stations place the locations at Cape la Vela, Colombia; Aruba and 

 Cubagua Islands and the Gulf of Venezuela at 2 to 23 fms. 



Genus GEMELLIPORINA Bassler 1936 

 Gemelliporina glabra (Smitt), 1873 



Smitt 1873:37 (Gemellipora glabra). Busk 1884: 176 (Gemellipora). 

 Canu and Bassler 1928:98 (Ge7nellipora). Marcus 1939: 140. 



This peculiar branched species was represented in the collection by a 

 few small fragments. Smitt described it from "West off Tortugas," 

 Florida; Canu and Bassler recorded it for the Gulf of Mexico, the 

 Straits of Florida, and south of Miami, Florida; Busk found it in the 

 Challenger collections off Bahia, Brazil, and Marcus recovered it as far 

 south as Recife, Brazil. 



Distribution. — Stations A18-39, At503, At504, and At528. These 

 stations place the locations at Cape la Vela, Colombia; Aruba Island and 

 the Gulf of Venezuela at 10 to 71 fms. 



