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 338
... polyps budding laterally from near the bases of adjacent polyps . Sclerites are of three general types . The tentacles possess small irregular rod - like structures that may branch near the ends . These sclerites are 0,05- 0,10 mm in ...
... polyps budding laterally from near the bases of adjacent polyps . Sclerites are of three general types . The tentacles possess small irregular rod - like structures that may branch near the ends . These sclerites are 0,05- 0,10 mm in ...
Page 346
... polyps produce many lateral secondary polyps . Sclerites of polyp walls sometimes partly fused forming clumps Carijoa sp . Polyps solitary or sometimes producing one lateral secondary polyp . Sclerites of polyp walls are free , not ...
... polyps produce many lateral secondary polyps . Sclerites of polyp walls sometimes partly fused forming clumps Carijoa sp . Polyps solitary or sometimes producing one lateral secondary polyp . Sclerites of polyp walls are free , not ...
Page 349
... Polyps without calyces or palisade - like arrangements of spindle - like sclerites ; entire polyp capable of complete retraction into polyparium . 42 39A . Polyp bases form conical calyces by the palisade - like arrangement of large ...
... Polyps without calyces or palisade - like arrangements of spindle - like sclerites ; entire polyp capable of complete retraction into polyparium . 42 39A . Polyp bases form conical calyces by the palisade - like arrangement of 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