FLESHY ALCYONARIANS FROM SOUTHERN FORMOSA

Abstract

For a month from May to July, 1938, about twenty years ago, I made a collecting trip to Formosa (Taiwan) for investigating the coral reefs and littoral fauna, especially to collect the cirripeds and alcyonarians. A general sketch of the coastal fauna of southern Formosa was already given in HIRO (1939a), and the systematic and ecological accounts of the cirripeds were also given in HIRO (1939b). In this paper is given only a systematic list of the fleshy alcyonarians collected mainly on the southern coasts of Formosa between 7th and 16th of June, 1938. Among them, some of the most interesting forms were described in detail in three former papers (UTINOMI, 1950a, 1950b and 1951). This study was supported by a grant-in-aid from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Scientific Research. I am indebted to Dr. Katura OYAMA for information on the homonymies of Sphaerella.