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II.—On Herpetopora, a New Genus Containing Three New Species of Cretaceous Cheilostome Polyzoa
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 May 2009
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In a report on a visit of the Geologists' Association to the exhibits of Polyzoa and Corals in the Geological Department of the British Museum in February, 1913, the author had occasion to mention two related and unnamed species of uniserial Chalk Polyzoa that hitherto had appeared in records as Hippothoa dispersa (von Hagenow). neither of which was this species, nor did either belong to the genus Hippothoa, Lamouroux. Since one of these two forms is very common in the English Chalk and the other not rare, it is time for a description of them to be published, that collectors may have distinctive names for them. In addition, a third form that has occurred in England is described, and the rest of the species included in the genus are mentioned, so that an idea of the genus as a whole may be formed.
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page 5 note 1 Proc. Geol. Assoc., vol. xxiv, pt. iii, pp. 171–2, 1913.
page 5 note 2 Lamouroux, , Exposition Méthodique des genres de l'Ordre des Polypiers, 1821, p. 82.Google Scholar The genotype is the recent Hippothoa divaricata.
page 5 note 3 το ἑρπετόν, ‘a creeping thing.’
page 6 note 1 Reuss, Denk. d. Kaiserl. Akad. d. Wissensch. Wien, Bd. vii, p. 134, pl. xxviii, fig. 1, 1854.Google Scholar
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page 6 note 6 Reuss, loc. cit.
page 7 note 1 D'Orbigny, loc. cit.
page 7 note 2 For references to the original descriptions of these species see footnote under Herpetopora anglica on p. 6.
page 7 note 3 Oval and elliptical used in the botanical sense, as denned, for instance, in. Asa Gray, 1879, Structural Botany, p. 95.
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