NO. 1401. GENERA OF SIMPLE FUNGID CORALS— VAUGHAN. 381 



4. Fungia talpina Lamarck, based on Seba, Mus., Ill, pi. cxi, fig. 6, and pi. 



cxir, fig. 31. 



5. Fungia patellaris IjAmarck= Madrepora patella Elli.s and Solander, pi. xxviii, 



figs. 1-4. 



6. Fungia pileus Lamarck =3ft<ra polonica Rumphius, Herb. Amb., VI, pi. 



LXXXVIII, fig. 3. 



Lamarck confused in his Fungia, corals that are now considered to 

 represent four different genera. 



Fungia U/macina Lamarck, no\N^=^ Her petolitha Umax (Esper) Esch- 

 scholtz, 1825. 



Fungia jpileus Lamarck, now = i%!/cm^;5'/'(2j»i7<3?^s (Pallas) Dana, 1846. 



tungia talpina Lamarck, now = CVyptabacia talpina (Lamarck) 

 Milne Edwards and Haime, 1849. 



This leaves in Fungia proper, F. agaricifonnis Lamarck {=fungi- 

 tes Linnffius), F. scutaria Lamarck and F. patella (Ellis and Solander). 



Leuckart in 1841" cHqb Fungia agar iciformis Lamarck as "Typus," 

 fixing the type. 



Milne Edwards and Haime in 1849* cite under Ftmgia^ F. agari- 

 ciformis and patellaris Lamarck. In 1850, in their Monograph of 

 the British Fossil Corals,^ Fungia patellaris Lamarck is definitel}' 

 given as the type-species. F. patellaris Lamarck {Madr. patella Ellis 

 and Solander) can not be the type-species, as F. agariciformis Lamarck 

 had already been so designated. In the third volume of the Histoire 

 naturelle des Coralliaires, pages 0, 7, Milne Edwards accepts the 

 latter species as the type, using for it the Linntean name Madrepora 

 fungites. 



Remarl's. — Prof. Ludwig Doderlein has published an elaborate 

 monograph, Die Korallengattung Fungia,'' in which the various skeletal 

 parts of the genus are described in much detail. A bibliography is 

 also given. A discussion of the genus will not be attempted here, as 

 the work of Professor Doderlein can be consulted. 



Fungia, has several synonyms, which are as follows:^ 



Cyclosekis Milne Edwards and Haime, Comptes rend. Acad., Paris, 

 XXIX, 1849, p. 72. 



The genus was placed by its author in their '"Lr/p/ioserinx,'- which 

 was characterized by having "the plateau without epitheca or cchinu- 

 lations, and with imperforate tissues."" 



Original generic diagnosis. — "Corallum simi)le, free. Septa very 

 numerous, uniting by their inner margins." 



Tyj)e species. — Fungia cyclolites Lamarck, Hist. nat. Anim. sans 



c Observ. Zoolog. de Zooph. Corall., spec, de Gen. Fungia, p. 42, pi. iv, figs. 1-4. 



* Comptes , rend. Acad. Paris, XXIX, 1849, p. 72. 



'' Introduction, p. xlvi. 



'' Senckenberg. naturfor. Gesellsch., AMuindl., XVII, Pt. 1, 1902, pp. i-iii, 1-162, 



pis. I -XXV. 



'AH of these excepting Adinmn-is d'Orhigny are discussed by IXiderlein, in his 

 Die Korallengattung Fungia. For further discussion consult that work. 

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