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 182
... internodes of fused sclerites and soft nodes of horny material ( the protein gorgonin , which contains sclerites ) . The horny central chord in the family Keroeididae is chambered and surrounded by a cortex of unfused sclerites . In the ...
... internodes of fused sclerites and soft nodes of horny material ( the protein gorgonin , which contains sclerites ) . The horny central chord in the family Keroeididae is chambered and surrounded by a cortex of unfused sclerites . In the ...
Page 183
... internodes . 3 2B . Axis continuous and uniform , without alternating nodes and internodes . 4 3A . Nodes are short and proteinous , internodes are GORGONIAN OCTOCORALS OF SOUTHERN AFRICA 183.
... internodes . 3 2B . Axis continuous and uniform , without alternating nodes and internodes . 4 3A . Nodes are short and proteinous , internodes are GORGONIAN OCTOCORALS OF SOUTHERN AFRICA 183.
Page 282
... internodes . Branching is bushy or bottlebrush - like , multiplanar . Sclerites are scales with scalloped or serrated margins and varying amounts of tuberculation . A genus of at least nine species from the Southern oceans . Type ...
... internodes . Branching is bushy or bottlebrush - like , multiplanar . Sclerites are scales with scalloped or serrated margins and varying amounts of tuberculation . A genus of at least nine species from the Southern oceans . Type ...
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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