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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... possess polyps restricted to the distal terminal regions of unilobate , unbranched colonies : A. complanatum Verseveldt , 1977 , and A. planiceps Williams , 1986a . The nature of the sclerites ( capstans in the coenenchyme and needles ...
... possess polyps restricted to the distal terminal regions of unilobate , unbranched colonies : A. complanatum Verseveldt , 1977 , and A. planiceps Williams , 1986a . The nature of the sclerites ( capstans in the coenenchyme and needles ...
Page 300
... possess coarsely tuberculated sclerites and can usually be distinguished by sclerite shape only . Alcyonium wilsoni has elongated clubs and spindles predominant ( Figs 25F - I , 26 ) . Alcyonium fauri has spindles and clubbed spindles ...
... possess coarsely tuberculated sclerites and can usually be distinguished by sclerite shape only . Alcyonium wilsoni has elongated clubs and spindles predominant ( Figs 25F - I , 26 ) . Alcyonium fauri has spindles and clubbed spindles ...
Page 340
... possess symbiotic algae ( zooxanthellae ) in the gastrodermal tissues of the tentacles . Colour of tentacles in life is often blue , green , brown , grey , or yellowish . Seven genera recognized world - wide , primarily in warm shallow ...
... possess symbiotic algae ( zooxanthellae ) in the gastrodermal tissues of the tentacles . Colour of tentacles in life is often blue , green , brown , grey , or yellowish . Seven genera recognized world - wide , primarily in warm shallow ...
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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