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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... arise from thin and membranous , often spreading bases that adhere to the brachiopod shells . Retracted polyps are 1,5 mm in diameter . Usually 6-20 polyps per polypary . Polyps restricted to polyparies , none arise directly from ...
... arise from thin and membranous , often spreading bases that adhere to the brachiopod shells . Retracted polyps are 1,5 mm in diameter . Usually 6-20 polyps per polypary . Polyps restricted to polyparies , none arise directly from ...
Page 328
... arise from a well- defined stalk . Surface of colonies brittle and rough . Polyps arise from the ends of terminal branches but are not present on the main branches or on the stalk . Polyps armed with well - developed crown and points ...
... arise from a well- defined stalk . Surface of colonies brittle and rough . Polyps arise from the ends of terminal branches but are not present on the main branches or on the stalk . Polyps armed with well - developed crown and points ...
Page 349
... arise directly from polyparium . Colony colour permanent Alcyonium moriferum ( Fig . 18 ) 41B . Calyces elongate cylindrical or slightly clavate . Adjacent polyps often clustered together with common bases . Colony colour alcohol ...
... arise directly from polyparium . Colony colour permanent Alcyonium moriferum ( Fig . 18 ) 41B . Calyces elongate cylindrical or slightly clavate . Adjacent polyps often clustered together with common bases . Colony colour alcohol ...
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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