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 268
... apparently absent . Oral surface of tentacles covered with several rows of pinnules , appearing clustered in contracted specimens . Surface of colony densely spiculated . Interior coenenchyme with very few irregularly - shaped rod ...
... apparently absent . Oral surface of tentacles covered with several rows of pinnules , appearing clustered in contracted specimens . Surface of colony densely spiculated . Interior coenenchyme with very few irregularly - shaped rod ...
Page 277
... apparently lacks sclerites of eight - radiates ( capstans ) in the stalk , which are common in A. elegans . Alcyonium elegans differs from other southern African Alcyonium species by the restriction of polyps to the distal terminus of ...
... apparently lacks sclerites of eight - radiates ( capstans ) in the stalk , which are common in A. elegans . Alcyonium elegans differs from other southern African Alcyonium species by the restriction of polyps to the distal terminus of ...
Page 326
... apparently restricted to the Cape south coast from Danger Point to the eastern Cape . Pieterfaurea unilobata , on the other hand , does not possess sclerites in the anthocodiae ; the maximum length of coenenchymal sclerites is 2,6 mm ...
... apparently restricted to the Cape south coast from Danger Point to the eastern Cape . Pieterfaurea unilobata , on the other hand , does not possess sclerites in the anthocodiae ; the maximum length of coenenchymal sclerites is 2,6 mm ...
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Acrophytum claviger Agulhas Alcyoniidae Alcyonium Alcyonium fauri Anthelia anthocodiae Anthocodial sclerites Anthomastus anthostele autozooids branches calyces calyx Cape Agulhas Cape Peninsula capitulum capstans Cladiella Clavularia clubs coast coenenchymal sclerites coll Colony colour completely retractile Dendronephthya dense depth Williams Diagnosis Colonies digitiform distal dredge Durban eastern Cape Province Eleutherobia endemic to southern Entire colony G. C. Williams R.V. genera genus globular Heteroxenia Hickson holotype Indo-Pacific Inhaca Inhaca Island Kükenthal Litophyton lobes material membranous Metalcyonium Mozambique northern Natal octocorals palisade-like Pieter Faure survey pinnules polyparies polyparium polyps R.V. Meiring Naude region Remarks retracted polyps S.S. Pieter Faure Scale bar Scanning electron micrographs sclerites SCUBA Sinularia siphonozooids Sodwana Bay soft coral southern Africa sparsely specimen Stalk sclerites stolons Telesto tentacles Thomson Tixier-Durivault 1960 total length Transkei tuberculate spheroids tuberculate spindles Type locality Type species Utinomi Verrill Verseveldt & Bayer W. R. Liltved Williams in press Williams R.V. Meiring Wright & Studer