Fig. 45. 
FAMILY XII. CELLEPORIDiE. 
32. Cellepora,* Otho Fabricius. 
Character. Polypidom calcareous , cellular , irregularly lob- 
ed or ramous , formed of urceolate cells heaped together or arrang- 
ed in quincunx . — Polypes ascidian. 
1. C. pumicosa ,glomerous, rough , porous ; cells suborbicular , 
mouth round with a produced marginal process, J . Ellis. 
Plate xxxii. Fig. 1, 2, 3. 
Porous Eschara, Ellis, Corall. 75, no. 7, pi. 27, fig. f F, and 72, pi. 
30, fig. d, D. Tubipora verrucosa, Lin. Syst. edit. 10, 789 
Cellepora pumicosa, Lin. Syst. 1286. Mull. Zool. Dan. prod. 253. 
Turt. Gmel. iv. 640. Berk. Syn. i. 212. Wern. Mem. i. 560. Turt. 
Brit. Faun. 206. Stew. Elem. ii. 428, pi. 12, fig. 16, 17, copied 
from Ellis. Lam. Anim. s. Vert. ii. 170. 2de edit. ii. 256. Corall. 
40. Bose, Vers, iii. 147, pi. 3, fig. 3. Flem. Brit. Anim. 532. Hogg's 
Stock. 37. Stark, Elem. ii. 436. Johnston in Trans. Newc. Soc. ii. 
267. Templeton in Mag. Nat. Hist. ix. 469 C. verrucosa, Lin. Syst. 
1286. Fabric. Faun. Groenl. 434 C. spinosa, Turt. Brit. Faun. 205. 
Millepora pumicosa, Pall Elencb. 254. Ellis and Soland. Zooph. 
135. Turt. Gmel. iv. 639. Wern. Mem. i. 560. Stew. Elem. ii. 428. 
Flustra bullata? Ellis and Soland. Zooph. 16. Stew. Elem- ii. 
436. Turt. Gmel. iv. 664 Le cellepore pouce et C. verruqueux, 
Blainv. Actinolog. 443-4. 
Hab. Found on the stems of various corallines, on stones, and on 
the roots of Fuci, common. 
The cells, by their conglomeration, form a porous friable calcareous 
* From cella a cell, and irut ** ?. 
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