﻿KOPnOBELEMNONTD^. 2^7 



Subsection II. CLAVI FORMES. 



Coral club-shaped or leaf-like. Polypes scattered on one or on 

 all sides of the upper part of the club. 



Fam. 3. KOPHOBELEMNONID^ 

 or CLAVIFORMES. 



Coral club-shaped, with an irregular row of large, prominent, not 

 retractile polypes on each side of the front surface. 



KopliobeleninoniejB or Claviformes, Gray, Ann. &■ Mag. Nat. Hist. 

 18G0, V. p. 23. 



18. KOPHOBELEMNON. 



Coral simple, fleshy, subclavate, covered with calcareous spicula, 

 with an irregular row of large polypes ; the polypes (cells) placed 

 in longitudinal rows on two sides, leaving the dorsal surface bare. 

 Polypes large,, not retractile. Axis slender, stony, as long as the 

 rachis. 



Kophobelemnon, Ashjornsen in Sars^s Fauna Litt. Norv. ii. p. 81 j Gray, 

 Ann. 8r Mag. Nat. Hist. 1860, v, p. 23 ; Verrill, Proc. Essex Inst. 

 1865, iv. p. 152. 



Pennatula, sp., Midler. 



Funicidina, sp., Lamk. ' 



Veretillum, sp., Cuvier. 



" Polyparium liberum carnosum, spiculis calcareis farctum ; ra- 

 chis claviformis eiiiunata latere anteriore solum papillis polypiferis 

 per quatuor series longitudinales altei'nantes dispositis obsito. Polypi 

 maximi, toti retractUes, octo tentacuUs piunatis circa os ornati. 

 Axis gracilis subcalcarea vel sublapidea." — 8ars. 



42. Kophobelemnon stelliferum. B.M. 



Pennatula steDifera, Muller, Zool. Dan. Prod. n. 3076 ; Zool. Dan. i. 



p. 44, t. 36. f. 1-3; Dana, Zooph. p. 590. 

 Fimiculina stellifera, Lamk. A. s. V. ed. 2. ii. p. 641. 

 VeretiUum stelliferum, Cuvier, R. A. iii. p. 319 ; Ehrenb. Corall. r. M. ; 



Philippi, Wiegm. Arch. i. p. 276. 

 Umbellularia stellifera, Blainv. Man. d'Act. p. 513, t. 

 Kophobelemnon Miilleri, Ashjornsen in Sars's Fauna Norv. ii. p. 81, 



t. 10. f. 1-7. 

 Kophobelemnon stelliferum, Herklots, Not. p. 23 ; Gray, Ann. Sc Mag. 



Nat. Hist. 1860, v. p. 23. 



Hah. North Sea ; Gulf of Christiania. 



43. Kophobelemnon Burgeri. 



Kophobelemnon Burgeri, Herklots, Not. p. 24, t. 7. f. 5 ; Gray, Ann. ^ 

 Mag. Nat. Hist. 1860, v. p. 23. 



Hah. Japan. 



