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 286
... permanent calyces , and the sclerites are predominantly tuberculate spheroids without medial waists . In the latter species , the colonies are digitate , the polyps retract into permanent calyces , and sclerites are mostly compact ...
... permanent calyces , and the sclerites are predominantly tuberculate spheroids without medial waists . In the latter species , the colonies are digitate , the polyps retract into permanent calyces , and sclerites are mostly compact ...
Page 292
... permanent calyces but may form hemispherical pro- trusions on the surface of the polyparium when retracted . These protuberances are capable of retraction into the polyparium . Sclerites from surface of lobes are predominantly compact ...
... permanent calyces but may form hemispherical pro- trusions on the surface of the polyparium when retracted . These protuberances are capable of retraction into the polyparium . Sclerites from surface of lobes are predominantly compact ...
Page 323
... permanent , spiculose calyces or ' palisade - like ' protuberances . Sclerites are primarily large , tuberculate spindles , mostly longitudinally aligned . Six genera of widespread distribution , but concentrated in the Indo - Pacific ...
... permanent , spiculose calyces or ' palisade - like ' protuberances . Sclerites are primarily large , tuberculate spindles , mostly longitudinally aligned . Six genera of widespread distribution , but concentrated in the Indo - Pacific ...
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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