Fig. 44. 
30. Tubulipora,* Lamarck. 
Character. Polypidom attached by a partial adhesion of 
the base , sometimes crustaceous : cells placed on a calcareous basis, 
arranged in rows, long and cylindrical, separate, with a round 
erect aperture. — Polypes ascidian. f 
* Base subcircular, cupped. (Discopora, Fleming.) 
1. T. patina, aperture of the cells round and toothless. Pallas. 
Plate xxxi. Fig. 1-3. 
Caryophyllus sive Fungites minimus tubulosus littoris Ariminensis, Plane. 
de Conch, min. not. 26, tab. 2, no. 9. Madrepora verrucaria, Lin. Syst. 
1272. Pall. Zooph. var. 281. Turt. Gmel. iv. 616. Turt. Brit. 
Faun. 204. Stew. Elem. ii. 426. Hogg's Stock. 38 Millepora ver- 
rucaria, Ellis and Soland. Zooph. 137 — Tubulipora patina, Lam. Anim. 
s. Vert. ii. 163. 2de edit. ii. 244. Risso, L’Europ. Merid. v, 338. 
Johnston in Trans. Newc. Soc. ii. 269, pi. 9, fig. 8 — T. patene, JBlainv. 
* From tubulus — a tube, and rrofo c — a passage. 
t See “ Memoire sur les Polypes du genre des Tubulipores, par M- H. Milne- 
Edwards,” in Ann. des. Sc. Nat. Part. Zool. viii. 321. 
