Genus Pocillopora Lamar ok, 
1816 • Pocillopora (para), Lamarck, Hist, Hat* Anim. sans Vert., 
t. II, p. 273. 
1846. Pocillopora Dana, Zooph. Wilkes Explor. E:xped., p. 523. 
1850. Pocillopor a, Milne Edwards & Haims , Monogr. British Loss. 
Corals, Introd. , p. lxii. 
1860. Pocillopora , Milne Edwards, Hist. nat. Corail., t, iii, p. 
301. 
1870. Pocillopora , Verrill, Trans. Conn. Acad., Vol. I, p. 519. 
1884, Pocillopora, Duncan, Jour* Linn. Soc, London, Zool., Vol. 
XVIII, p. 47. 
Type species • - - - Pocillopora acuta L amarck » 
Lamarck (p£. sup , cit . ) referred seven species to this 
genus. P. acuta is the first, and was designated in 1850 as the 
type-species by Milne Edwards & Haime 
