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 280
... dense in surface coenen- chyme , sparse to dense in between gastric cavities of the interior . Sclerite distri- bution in polyps highly variable . In some colonies polyp sclerites are very scarce or totally absent . Other colonies have ...
... dense in surface coenen- chyme , sparse to dense in between gastric cavities of the interior . Sclerite distri- bution in polyps highly variable . In some colonies polyp sclerites are very scarce or totally absent . Other colonies have ...
Page 326
... dense giving the colonies a relatively stiff and rough appearance ; and the bases of expanded polyps have sclerites that are densely arranged in a ' palisade - like ' fashion ; the maximum size of colonies is 50 mm long by 10 mm wide ...
... dense giving the colonies a relatively stiff and rough appearance ; and the bases of expanded polyps have sclerites that are densely arranged in a ' palisade - like ' fashion ; the maximum size of colonies is 50 mm long by 10 mm wide ...
Page 347
... dense , and conspicuous ( > 0,10 mm long ) , usually with conspicuous surface tuberculation 23 20A . Sclerites are ... densely packed and longitudinally placed . Polyps with conspicu- ous crown and points , retractile into calyces ...
... dense , and conspicuous ( > 0,10 mm long ) , usually with conspicuous surface tuberculation 23 20A . Sclerites are ... densely packed and longitudinally placed . Polyps with conspicu- ous crown and points , retractile into calyces ...
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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