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 193
... sparsely thorny spindles and rods that are sometimes branched . Colony colour reddish , incorporated in sclerites of the cortex . Three species from the Gulf of Mexico , West Indies , and South Africa . Type species . Diodogorgia ...
... sparsely thorny spindles and rods that are sometimes branched . Colony colour reddish , incorporated in sclerites of the cortex . Three species from the Gulf of Mexico , West Indies , and South Africa . Type species . Diodogorgia ...
Page 214
... sparsely branched or unbranched . Polyps are mostly arranged in two lateral rows . Calyces are prominent and conical in shape . Sclerites of the calyces and coenenchyme are relatively large tuberculate spindles . Those of the calyces ...
... sparsely branched or unbranched . Polyps are mostly arranged in two lateral rows . Calyces are prominent and conical in shape . Sclerites of the calyces and coenenchyme are relatively large tuberculate spindles . Those of the calyces ...
Page 252
... sparsely arranged on the lateral branches . Sclerites are scales and prickly spindles . Main stem often bronze or copper- coloured with a lustrous iridescence , lateral branches and polyps whitish or yellowish . A large genus of ...
... sparsely arranged on the lateral branches . Sclerites are scales and prickly spindles . Main stem often bronze or copper- coloured with a lustrous iridescence , lateral branches and polyps whitish or yellowish . A large genus of ...
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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