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 268
... numerous and completely covering polyparium , evenly distributed . Anthocodial sclerites apparently absent . Oral surface of tentacles covered with several rows of pinnules , appearing clustered in contracted specimens . Surface of ...
... numerous and completely covering polyparium , evenly distributed . Anthocodial sclerites apparently absent . Oral surface of tentacles covered with several rows of pinnules , appearing clustered in contracted specimens . Surface of ...
Page 292
... numerous , arising from several branches that diverge from distal region of stalk . Polyps numerous and crowded ; retracted polyps often form small rounded protuberances on the surface of the polyparium , expanded polyps mostly 0,5 mm ...
... numerous , arising from several branches that diverge from distal region of stalk . Polyps numerous and crowded ; retracted polyps often form small rounded protuberances on the surface of the polyparium , expanded polyps mostly 0,5 mm ...
Page 304
... numerous on surface of capitulum between autozooids , < 0,5 mm in diameter . Autozooid tentacles with needle - like sclerites < 0,2 mm long , particularly numerous in pinnules . Body walls of anthocodiae with sclerites filling spaces ...
... numerous on surface of capitulum between autozooids , < 0,5 mm in diameter . Autozooid tentacles with needle - like sclerites < 0,2 mm long , particularly numerous in pinnules . Body walls of anthocodiae with sclerites filling spaces ...
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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