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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... rounded protuberances < 0,1 mm in diameter . Calicular surface usually densely covered with minute prickly tubercles . Anthocodiae possess narrow rod - like sclerites with sparse rounded tubercles ; sclerites 0,20-0,45 mm long ...
... rounded protuberances < 0,1 mm in diameter . Calicular surface usually densely covered with minute prickly tubercles . Anthocodiae possess narrow rod - like sclerites with sparse rounded tubercles ; sclerites 0,20-0,45 mm long ...
Page 268
... rounded . Sharp demarcation between polyparium and stalk . Polyparium elongate - conical or finger - like . Polyps dimorphic although siphonozooids may not be apparent in smaller or tightly contracted colonies < 70 mm in length ...
... rounded . Sharp demarcation between polyparium and stalk . Polyparium elongate - conical or finger - like . Polyps dimorphic although siphonozooids may not be apparent in smaller or tightly contracted colonies < 70 mm in length ...
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... rounded . Adjacent polyps are solitary and arise directly from polyparium . Colony colour permanent Alcyonium moriferum ( Fig . 18 ) 41B . Calyces elongate cylindrical or slightly clavate . Adjacent polyps often clustered together with ...
... rounded . Adjacent polyps are solitary and arise directly from polyparium . Colony colour permanent Alcyonium moriferum ( Fig . 18 ) 41B . Calyces elongate cylindrical or slightly clavate . Adjacent polyps often clustered together with ...
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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