A history of the British sea-anemones and corals / by Philip Henry Gosse.

  • Gosse, Philip Henry, 1810-1888.
Date:
1860
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Credit: A history of the British sea-anemones and corals / by Philip Henry Gosse. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Animal. Undescribed. Locality. The coasts of Cornwall and Galway : deep water. 1 am sorry that I can give no information about this species additional to what is already known, viz., that it exists in a living state on our coasts, and that the skeleton is preserved in cabinets. That in the British Museum is the only one that I have seen. As long as naturalists con- tent themselves with merely preserving the skeletons of the animals they meet with, but little progress can be made in a knowledge of their history.* The present species is said to have been dredged alive off Scilly, by Mr. MacAndrew, after whom it has been named, and off Arran, on the west coast of Ireland, by Mr. Barlee. The generic name is from acf>r}v, a wedge, and Tpo%6s, a top, in allusion to the form of the corallum. S. milletianus, with which this has been confounded, is a fossil of the miocene period, with a thicker point, and a more elliptical calice. intermedins {foss.). Macandrewanus. [Roe'meri (foss.).] * M. Milne Edwards has fallen (Hist, Corall. ii. 70) into the strange inadvertence of supposing that the figure given by Johnston (Br. Zooph. Ed. 2, pi. xxsv. fig. 7), of the living animal, belongs to this species; though the text distinctly says it is a Caryophyttia Smithii. The figure is poor enough, it is true.