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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... lobes globular or conical , 4-5 mm in length . Expanded colonies with terminal lobes finger - like , 2-4 mm in diameter and up to 15 mm in length . Terminal lobes numerous , arising from several branches that diverge from distal region ...
... lobes globular or conical , 4-5 mm in length . Expanded colonies with terminal lobes finger - like , 2-4 mm in diameter and up to 15 mm in length . Terminal lobes numerous , arising from several branches that diverge from distal region ...
Page 308
... lobes arise form a prominent robust stalk . Lobes are up to 15 mm long and 4 mm wide . Stalk with a broad base forming an extended holdfast . Surface of preserved colonies markedly wrinkled or pustulate . Polyps restricted to lobes ...
... lobes arise form a prominent robust stalk . Lobes are up to 15 mm long and 4 mm wide . Stalk with a broad base forming an extended holdfast . Surface of preserved colonies markedly wrinkled or pustulate . Polyps restricted to lobes ...
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... lobes or branches ) 24 23B . Colonies membranous or creeping , capitate , digitiform , digitate , or few lobate ( < 10 ultimate lobes ) .. 33 24A . Surface of colony rough and stiff , due to large , narrow finely tuberculate spindles ...
... lobes or branches ) 24 23B . Colonies membranous or creeping , capitate , digitiform , digitate , or few lobate ( < 10 ultimate lobes ) .. 33 24A . Surface of colony rough and stiff , due to large , narrow finely tuberculate spindles ...
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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