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Vol. 105 Washington : 1955 No. 3357 



CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE NOMENCLATURE, SYSTEMATICS, 

 AND MORPHOLOGY OF THE OCTOCORALLIA 



By Frederick M. Bayer 



This paper records certain information resulting from work done 

 toward preparation of the chapter on OctocoralHa for the "Treatise of 

 Invertebrate Paleontology." Regrettably, it must include material 

 of very diverse nature — nomenclature, systematics, morphology, 

 phylogeny, and paleontology. Likewise regrettably, the diagnoses of 

 new taxonomic units must for the present be of a brief and preliminary 

 nature. It is hoped that each may be suitably expanded in future 

 treatments. 



The field work at Arno and Ifaluk was supported by funds from 

 Contract N7-onr-29104 (NR 388-001) by the Office of Naval Re- 

 search, Department of the Navy, and National Academy of Sciences. 



Order ALCYONACEA Lamouroux, 1816 

 Family Alcyoniidae Lamouroux, 1812 



Genus Sphaerella Gray, 1869 



Lobularia Ehrenberg, 1834, p. 281; Tixier-Durivault, 1948, p. 1; not Lamarck 



1816, p. 412. 

 Sphaerella Gray, 1869, p. 122. (Type species: Alcyonium tuberculosum Quoy and 



Ga.imsiTd= Lobularia tuberculosum (Quoy and Gaimard) Tixier-Durivault, 



1948, by monotypy.) 

 Micr ossicular ia Macfadyen, 1936, p. 28. (Type species: Alcyonium pachyclados 



Klunzinger, by original designation.) 



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