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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... Globular forms are rare . The autozooids have crown and points of mostly slender spindles approximately 0,15 mm long . Tubercles of all sclerites are usually dense and coarse , often low , but sometimes thorny . Colour of colonies in ...
... Globular forms are rare . The autozooids have crown and points of mostly slender spindles approximately 0,15 mm long . Tubercles of all sclerites are usually dense and coarse , often low , but sometimes thorny . Colour of colonies in ...
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... globular , membranous or encrust- ing 36A . Colonies digitiform or capitate 36B . Colonies lobate , globular , membranous to encrusting 37A . Colonies excluding polyps are digitiform ( finger - like ) 37B . Colonies excluding polyps are ...
... globular , membranous or encrust- ing 36A . Colonies digitiform or capitate 36B . Colonies lobate , globular , membranous to encrusting 37A . Colonies excluding polyps are digitiform ( finger - like ) 37B . Colonies excluding polyps are ...
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... globular or ovoid forms . Colony colour permanent .. Alcyonium variabile ( Fig . 24 ) 45A . Sclerites are entirely elongate , tuberculated clubs and spindles ; no globu- lar , ovoid , or foliate forms or double heads present ...
... globular or ovoid forms . Colony colour permanent .. Alcyonium variabile ( Fig . 24 ) 45A . Sclerites are entirely elongate , tuberculated clubs and spindles ; no globu- lar , ovoid , or foliate forms or double heads present ...
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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