UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PUBLICATIONS 

 ZOOLOGY 



Vol. 3, No. 3, pp. 41-45, PI. 8 April 17, 1906 



CONTEIBUTIONS FEOM THE LABOEATOEY 



OF THE 



MAEINE BIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION OF SAN DIEGO. 



THE CALIFORNIA SHORE ANEMONE, 

 BUNODACTIS XANTHOGRAMMICA. 



BY 

 HAEEY BEAL TOEEEY. 



The species which forms the subject of this paper has been 

 described under at least four different specific and five generic 

 names, so that it is now burdened with a formidable, varied and 

 extensive synonymy. This condition of affairs may be explained 

 partly by its wide range and abundance along the entire 

 Pacific coast of North America, coupled with a fair degree of 

 variability. But these very facts make it highly undesirable that 

 its nomenclature should continue to grow and diversify. I have 

 accordingly determined to set forth at once the results of observa- 

 tions which, to my mind, successfully achieve this end, and upon 

 which I have based not only a revision of the species, but a re- 

 union of some ten generic names under the legal title of Buno- 

 dactis, originally applied by Verrill, '99, to the Bimodes of Gosse, 

 and from which the family name is naturally derived. The es- 

 sential synonymy and the definition of both family, genus and 

 species, are given herewith. 



