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 277
... distal terminal regions of unilobate , unbranched colonies : A. complanatum Verseveldt , 1977 , and A. planiceps Williams , 1986a . The nature of the sclerites ( capstans in the coenenchyme and needles in the polyps ) are similar in ...
... distal terminal regions of unilobate , unbranched colonies : A. complanatum Verseveldt , 1977 , and A. planiceps Williams , 1986a . The nature of the sclerites ( capstans in the coenenchyme and needles in the polyps ) are similar in ...
Page 312
... distal surface of capitulum . Capitulum retractile into distal portion of stalk . Autozooids and siphonozooids numerous and crowded . Autozooids capable of complete retrac- tion into capitulum . Calyces absent . Tentacles with a single ...
... distal surface of capitulum . Capitulum retractile into distal portion of stalk . Autozooids and siphonozooids numerous and crowded . Autozooids capable of complete retrac- tion into capitulum . Calyces absent . Tentacles with a single ...
Page 313
... distal surface of the capitulum . Polyp - bearing surface of cap- itulum is plainly delimited from the stalk and proximal region of the capitulum by a distinct boundary , which is formed by the distal termination of the cuticle . Polyps ...
... distal surface of the capitulum . Polyp - bearing surface of cap- itulum is plainly delimited from the stalk and proximal region of the capitulum by a distinct boundary , which is formed by the distal termination of the cuticle . Polyps ...
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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