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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... mm in height . Stalk conspicuous , relatively thick , variable in length . Tightly contracted col- onies with terminal lobes globular or conical , 4-5 mm in length . Expanded colonies with terminal lobes finger - like , 2-4 mm in ...
... mm in height . Stalk conspicuous , relatively thick , variable in length . Tightly contracted col- onies with terminal lobes globular or conical , 4-5 mm in length . Expanded colonies with terminal lobes finger - like , 2-4 mm in ...
Page 308
... length from 20 to 35 mm . Colonies are upright , digitate ; 3-8 finger - like unbranched 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 ...
... length from 20 to 35 mm . Colonies are upright , digitate ; 3-8 finger - like unbranched 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 ...
Page 326
... mm long . Surface of polyparium is densely spiculated with spindles or slightly clubbed spindles , mostly 0,4-1,0 mm in length . Surface of stalk with large robust spindles or slightly clubbed spindles 0,25-2,6 mm long . Similar large ...
... mm long . Surface of polyparium is densely spiculated with spindles or slightly clubbed spindles , mostly 0,4-1,0 mm in length . Surface of stalk with large robust spindles or slightly clubbed spindles 0,25-2,6 mm long . Similar large ...
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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