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 304
... stalk and may be rounded or spheroid , or only slightly flared from the rest of the stalk . Surface of stalk smooth and uniform . Autozooids generally less than 12 per colony ; very large , up to 35 mm in length and 10 mm in diameter ...
... stalk and may be rounded or spheroid , or only slightly flared from the rest of the stalk . Surface of stalk smooth and uniform . Autozooids generally less than 12 per colony ; very large , up to 35 mm in length and 10 mm in diameter ...
Page 308
... stalk . Lobes are up to 15 mm long and 4 mm wide . Stalk with a broad base forming an extended holdfast . Surface of preserved colonies markedly wrinkled or pustulate . Polyps restricted to lobes . Anthocodiae com- pletely retractile ...
... stalk . Lobes are up to 15 mm long and 4 mm wide . Stalk with a broad base forming an extended holdfast . Surface of preserved colonies markedly wrinkled or pustulate . Polyps restricted to lobes . Anthocodiae com- pletely retractile ...
Page 326
... stalk . Stalk length approximately 40-50 per cent of total colony length . Stalk and polyparium distinctly delineated . Anthocodiae retractile into perma- nent calyces . Anthocodial sclerites absent . Calyx sclerites are spindles 0,7- 1 ...
... stalk . Stalk length approximately 40-50 per cent of total colony length . Stalk and polyparium distinctly delineated . Anthocodiae retractile into perma- nent calyces . Anthocodial sclerites absent . Calyx sclerites are spindles 0,7- 1 ...
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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