POLYZOA INFUNDIBULATA. 



I. TUBULIPORINA. 



Les TUBULIPOUIENS, Milne-Edwards Mem. sur les Crisies, p. 14. TUBULIPORID.K, 

 Johnston in Trans. Berw. Nat. CL 107. AULOPORINA, Ehrenbcrg Corall. des 

 roth. meer. 153. 



Fig. 61. 



FAMILY TUBULIPORID^. 



TUBIPORAMS, Flem. Brit. Anim. 528. TUBULIPORID^:, Johnston Brit. Zooph. 247. 

 Les TUBULIPORES, Milne-Edwards in Ann. des Sc. Nat. viii. 321. TUBULJ- 

 PORIDA, J. E. Gray, in Syn. Brit. Mus. 135. 



CHARACTER. Polypidoms calcareous, massive, orliculated 

 or lobed or divided dichotomously ; the cells long and tubular, 

 with a round prominent unconstricted aperture. 



The animal of the Tubuliporidae was first described by Milne- 

 Edwards. It is an ascidian polype of the simplest kind, and the 

 tenant of a calcareous elongated and tubular cell which has a round 

 aperture unprotected by any valvular apparatus or operculum. At 



