Annals of the South African Museum: Annale Van Die Suid-Afrikaanse MuseumWest, Newman & Company for the trustees of the Museum, 1992 - Natural history |
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Page 185
... cylindrical permanent calyces with anthocodiae usually preserved partly exserted . Stems round ; a thin cortex surrounds a thick medulla . Two or three species of the northern Atlantic , South Africa , and possibly the Pacific coast of ...
... cylindrical permanent calyces with anthocodiae usually preserved partly exserted . Stems round ; a thin cortex surrounds a thick medulla . Two or three species of the northern Atlantic , South Africa , and possibly the Pacific coast of ...
Page 223
... cylindrical , ultimate branches sometimes slightly clavate . Branches usually straight or slightly curved , not sinuous . Anastomosis apparently does not occur . Main stem cylindrical , rarely somewhat flattened . Polyps numerous on all ...
... cylindrical , ultimate branches sometimes slightly clavate . Branches usually straight or slightly curved , not sinuous . Anastomosis apparently does not occur . Main stem cylindrical , rarely somewhat flattened . Polyps numerous on all ...
Page 231
... cylindrical ( 1,0-2,0 mm in diameter ; up to 200 mm in length ) . Basal main stem cylindrical , rarely slightly flattened . Polyps numerous , present on all sides of branches , capable of total retraction into coenenchyme , rarely ...
... cylindrical ( 1,0-2,0 mm in diameter ; up to 200 mm in length ) . Basal main stem cylindrical , rarely slightly flattened . Polyps numerous , present on all sides of branches , capable of total retraction into coenenchyme , rarely ...
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Acabaria rubra Acanthogorgia Acanthomuricea Algoa Bay Anastomosis Anthocodiae Axis composed balloon clubs Bayer branches arising calyces calyx Calyx sclerites Cape Agulhas capensis Simpson capstans Chathamisis Chrysogorgia clavate coarsely tuberculate Coenenchymal sclerites Colonies examined range Colony colour cortex cylindrical depth Williams Description Colonies examined Diagnosis Colonies dichotomously branched dredge East London eastern Cape Province Ellisellidae elongate entire colony Eunicella albicans Eunicella papillosa False Bay Family G. C. Williams genera genus gorgonians Gorgoniidae Gray holdfast holotype Homophyton verrucosum Indo-Pacific internodes Junceella Kölliker Kükenthal Leptogorgia Leptogorgia gilchristi longitudinal material medulla monomorphic multiplanar non-spicular northern Natal Pieter Faure survey pinnate planar Polyps Polyps monomorphic present work represents R.V. Meiring Naude Radicipes S.S. Pieter Faure Scale bar Scanning electron micrographs SCUBA South Africa southern Africa sparsely specimens Stiasny text-fig Tixier-Durivault Transkei tuberculated spindles Type locality Type species unbranched Verrill W. R. Liltved whorls Williams in press Wright & Studer Wrightella