Coelenterates from Laijuna Beacli 



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H. II. MNINCER, A. M. liKAN AND OTHERS 



C.orymdi flia pulmci Torrcy. Foiiml at several places on the saiul Hals near 

 Balboa aiul Anaheim bays. 



Tuhularia crncra Ag. Abinulant on xvharf and pile.s in Balboa bay. 



The only jellyfish «liich we have had <letermined is Srrippsia pacifica Toirey, Det. 

 Torrey. From surface waters near shore. 



Cribina xantlnii/rammua Brandt, Oet. Torrey. Tlie shore anemone Is very 

 abimdant and variable. 



Epiattis prolifera Vet. Specimens of red anemones, brown anemones with red 

 stripes and brown anemones were found under rocks at low tide. 



A small sand species was found on the sand flats at Anaheim I.andinn by \V. 

 A. H. in September, 1917. We have not fmnul any at Balboa or at Laguiia which 

 seem to be this species. 



Edv^'ordsia sp. This was found ver\ abundaiitK at Balboa lia\' and Analieim 

 Landing, in the sand at low tide. W. A. H. 



Cerianlhus lesluari Torrey. Possibly a small specimen collected at Balboa Bay 

 may have belonged to this species. \V. A. H. 



Ceriantlnis jolinsoni Torrey. Two specimens of this species were collected at 

 Balboa Bay by Nininger. The following is his accoimt of tlie species: 



"The anemone was taken from the muddy shore at low tide. In life the spread 

 of the tentacles was eight and a half inches. There was a folding in toward the 

 mouth of one or more of the tentacles almost all the time. Possibly they were carrying 

 food. In this the tentacles acted independently. When a particle was in the grasp 

 of the group of small central tentacles, the large tentacle or tentacles first involvd 

 returned to their former positions at once. 



The tube was found to be imbedded in the mud to a depth of sixteen inches. 

 Near the bottom of the tube the anemone was fastened to it by means of a cementing 

 substance much like the inner layers of the tube. 



The color of this specimen was pink. The color of another one was grayish with 

 the tentacles banded with pink." 



Living in or on the tube of one of these was an ailult of the small crab Ptntiixct 

 lilloralis Holmes. 



Telestn amhigua Xutting. These little alcyonarians are quite abundant at Laguna 

 Beach, on the under sides of stones. 



I'sammngorii'ia lorreyi Nutting. Stems of this large branched alconarian were 

 dredged near Balboa in about twenty fathoms by A. M. Bean. 



From low tide and from dredging near shore one or possibly two species of stony 

 corrals were collected. 



Several small anemone-like forms were collected among alg;E and among the 

 roots of eel grass. One was a bright red with few tentacles. One had a light body 

 «ith blue tentacles. 



(Cuntiihutinn from tlie '/.iKiloiiual Deparlminl of Pomona College.) 



