VERMIOLOGY. 



PLATE CLXXIV. 



MADREPORA ANANAS 

 ANANAS MADREPORE 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Coral, with lamellate star-shaped cavities. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER 

 AND 

 SYNONYMS. 



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Aggregate, stars subangular, unequal, of many rays, the 

 margins convex and lamellate, the plates denticulato-crenate : stars 

 concave in the disk. 



Madrepora Ananas : aggregata, stellis subangulatis inaequalibus 

 multiradiatis : marginibus convexis lamellosis, 

 lamellis denticulato-crenatis, interstitiis concavis. 

 Ellis and Soland. Zooph. p m 168. t. 47. 6. 



Madrepora Ananas : stellis angulosis convexis disco concavis* 

 Linn, Amoen. Acad. 1. p. 92. U 4. /. 8. 2. 9. 



