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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... thorny . Colour of colonies in life not known ; cream - white or brownish - white when preserved . Distribution Known only from the above material - Cape Peninsula to Knysna , 21– 73 m in depth ; apparently endemic to southern Africa ...
... thorny . Colour of colonies in life not known ; cream - white or brownish - white when preserved . Distribution Known only from the above material - Cape Peninsula to Knysna , 21– 73 m in depth ; apparently endemic to southern Africa ...
Page 304
... thorny rods and double stars similar to those of the stalk . Surface of stalk and stalk interior with numerous thorny double stars < 0,15 mm long and slender elongate needle - like sclerites with simple thorny processes. 304 ANNALS OF ...
... thorny rods and double stars similar to those of the stalk . Surface of stalk and stalk interior with numerous thorny double stars < 0,15 mm long and slender elongate needle - like sclerites with simple thorny processes. 304 ANNALS OF ...
Page 330
... thorny spindles . Stalk sclerites include leaf - clubs and thorny spindles . Stalk sclerites are often irregular and compact radiate - like structures , frequently thorny . A genus of perhaps 19 species , primarily Indo - Pacific and ...
... thorny spindles . Stalk sclerites include leaf - clubs and thorny spindles . Stalk sclerites are often irregular and compact radiate - like structures , frequently thorny . A genus of perhaps 19 species , primarily Indo - Pacific and ...
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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