VERETILLIDAE 



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Caverniilaria elegans (Herklots 1858) 

 (Synonymy before 1910, see Kiikenthal and Broch 191 1.) 



Cavernularia elegans+C. madeirensis+C. pusilla, Kiikenthal 1915, pp. 15-17, figs. 19, 20. 

 St. 274. Off Angola, W. Africa, 65 m. i specimen (identified by Mrs MacFadyen). 



In a note Mrs MacFadyen gives the following data concerning the specimen: 'A small club-shaped 

 colony very similar in appearance to Kiikenthal and Broch's photograph (191 1, PI. 18, fig. 29) shows 



Fig. I. Chart showing the distribution of Veretillum cyiwmorium, Actino[>ii!um molle, and Pcnnatida rubra. • Veretillum 

 cynomoriutn (mainly after Pax and Miiller, 1954). x Actinoptilum molle. A Pennatula rubra. 



a head [rachis] 2-3 cm. long and 1-2 cm. broad and a stalk, 2-7 cm. long and 4 mm. broad at the top, 

 7 mm. broad near the base. The autozooids are up to 4 mm. long (excluding the tentacles) and 3 mm. 

 in diameter. The siphonozooids are numerous, scattered between the autozooids on the head. There 

 is no axis. The spicules are of the usual needle-like Cavernularia type. Small groups of minute almost 

 rounded spicules ['calcareous concretions' Broch 1957] are formed in the inside of the stalk, a point 



