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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... interior of the base of one polyp examined is densely filled with a spiculiferous mesogleal matrix . Sclerites of the body wall are slender to broad spindles or oval plates 0,12-0,54 mm in length , thickly set with coarse tubercles ...
... interior of the base of one polyp examined is densely filled with a spiculiferous mesogleal matrix . Sclerites of the body wall are slender to broad spindles or oval plates 0,12-0,54 mm in length , thickly set with coarse tubercles ...
Page 268
... Interior coenenchyme with very few irregularly - shaped rod - like sclerites and spindles , or internal sclerites totally absent . Sclerites of the polyparium are tuberculated clubs , 0,17-0,35 mm in length . Tubercles mostly large ...
... Interior coenenchyme with very few irregularly - shaped rod - like sclerites and spindles , or internal sclerites totally absent . Sclerites of the polyparium are tuberculated clubs , 0,17-0,35 mm in length . Tubercles mostly large ...
Page 326
... interior of the colony . Preserved colony colour brownish , sclerites white . Distribution The species is known only from the east coast of southern Africa , from East London ( eastern Cape Province ) to the Durban region ( Natal ) , 40 ...
... interior of the colony . Preserved colony colour brownish , sclerites white . Distribution The species is known only from the east coast of southern Africa , from East London ( eastern Cape Province ) to the Durban region ( Natal ) , 40 ...
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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