KOPHOBELEMNONTD^. 27 



Subsection II. CLAVIFORMES. 



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

 all sides of tbe 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. 



Kophobelemnoniese or Claviformes, Gray, Ann. ^ Mag. Nat. Hist. 

 1860, 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; Gray, 

 Ann. 8f Mag. Nat. Hist. 1860, v. p. 23 ; Verrill, Proc. Esse.v Inst. 

 1865, iv. p. 152. 



Pennatula, sp., Miiller, 



Funiculina, sp., Lamk. 



Veretillum, sp., Cuvier. 



"Polyparium liberum carnosum, spiculis calcareis farctum; ra- 

 chis claviformis epiimata latere anteriore solum papiUis polypiferis 

 per quatuor series longitudinales alternantes dispositis obsito. Polypi 

 maximi, toti retractiles, octo tentaculis pinnatis circa os omati. 

 Axis gracilis subcalcarea vel sublapidea." — Sars. 



42. Kophobelemnon stelliferiim. B.M. 



Pennatula stellifera, Miiller, Zool. Dan. Prod. n. 3076 ; Zool. Dan. i. 



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

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

 VeretiUum steUiferum, Cuvier, R. A. iii. p. 319 ; JShrenb. Corall. r. M. ; 



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

 Umbelliilaria stellifera, Blainv. Man. dAct. p. 513, t. 

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



t. 10. f. 1-7. 

 Kophobelemnon steUiferum, Herklots, Not. p. 23 ; Gray, Ann. & Mag. 



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



Hab. North Sea ; Gulf of Christiania. 



43. Eophobelemnou Burgeri. 



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

 Mag. Nat. Hist. 18(30, v. p. 23. 



Hah. Japan. 



