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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... whorls of tubercles that are symmetrically sculptured . Adjacent tubercles do not fuse to form discs . A genus of at least eight species of the Mediterranean , Atlantic , and southern Africa and the subantarctic . Type species ...
... whorls of tubercles that are symmetrically sculptured . Adjacent tubercles do not fuse to form discs . A genus of at least eight species of the Mediterranean , Atlantic , and southern Africa and the subantarctic . Type species ...
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... whorls of 3-6 . Each polyp is curved inward toward the axis . Polyp sclerites are curved scales . Coenenchymal sclerites are ovate , polygonal or elongate plates . Approximately 20 species of the Atlantic , Mediterranean , and Indo ...
... whorls of 3-6 . Each polyp is curved inward toward the axis . Polyp sclerites are curved scales . Coenenchymal sclerites are ovate , polygonal or elongate plates . Approximately 20 species of the Atlantic , Mediterranean , and Indo ...
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... whorls . Each polyp is conspicuously armed with 3-4 pairs of large abaxial body scales . Perhaps 20 species of the ... whorls of 4-8 polyps per whorl . Whorls are congested along all branches , and vary from 4 mm to 9 mm in diameter ...
... whorls . Each polyp is conspicuously armed with 3-4 pairs of large abaxial body scales . Perhaps 20 species of the ... whorls of 4-8 polyps per whorl . Whorls are congested along all branches , and vary from 4 mm to 9 mm in diameter ...
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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