698 ZOOPHYTES. 



GENUS MYRIOZOUM. DONATI. EHRENBERG. 



Affixes, ramoscK. Corolla infra nuda, supra cellis punctiformibus in- 

 structa ; cellis simplicibus, non lamellatis, ex axe radiatis : animali- 

 bus multitentaculatis, et operculigeris. 



Attached ramose. Coralla naked below, but above punctured with 

 minute cells, not lamellate within, and radiating from the axis of 

 the stem ; polyps multitentaculate, and having an operculum. 



The animals of the species here included were first figured by 

 Donati, and afterwards with more accuracy by Cavolini. They are 

 represented as having a funnel-shaped extremity and a circular oper- 

 culum attached to one side. This peculiar form has much analogy 

 to many Serpulas, and the species may belong to that group, although 

 the branches present the compact structure and the aspect of a zoo- 

 phyte. 



1. MYRIOZOUM TRTJNCATUM. 

 M. pumilum; dichotomum ; ramis teretibus, apice truncatis. 



Small; dichotomous; branches terete, truncate at apex. 

 Mediterranean. 



Madrepore rameuz, &c., Marsilli, Phys., , Lamk., ii. 308, No. 5. 



145, tab. 32, figs. 154-156. , Lamour., Exp., 47, pi. 23, fig. 1 to 8. 



Miriozoo, Donati, Hist. d. Mer. Adriat., 55, , Deslongchamps, Encyc., 546. 



tab. 7. , Oken's Zool., i. 63. 



Myriozoum, Phil. Trans., xlvii. 107, tab. Myriapora truncata, Blainv., Man., 427, 



5 ; vol. x., Abridg., pi. 5. pi. 71, fig. 2. 



Millepora truncata, Linn., ed. xii., 1283. , Brit. Assoc., 1843, p. 151, "occurs 



, Pallas, Zooph., 249. in the jEgean at a depth of 70 fathoms." 

 , Cavolini, Pol. Mar., 59, tab. 3, figs. Myriozoum truncatum, Ehrenb., G. Ixxiv. 



9-11. Tntncularia, Wiegmann (cited from Eh- 



-, Ellis and Solander, 141, tab. 23, renberg). 



figs. 1-8. Delle Chiaje, Anim. Nap., iii. 40, pi. 33, 

 , Esper, i. 188, tab. Millep., 4. figs. 16, 17. 



