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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... variable ; colonies may be membranous , globular to capitate , or lobate ; often asymmetrical . Entire colony often covered with polyps . Sometimes there is a clear demarcation between base and polyparium , distinct stalk rarely well ...
... variable ; colonies may be membranous , globular to capitate , or lobate ; often asymmetrical . Entire colony often covered with polyps . Sometimes there is a clear demarcation between base and polyparium , distinct stalk rarely well ...
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... variable soft coral species in southern Africa . Groot & Weinberg ( 1982 ) described the extreme degree of variability found in Alcyonium coralloides from Europe . Like A. coralloides , A. fauri is highly variable not only in regard to ...
... variable soft coral species in southern Africa . Groot & Weinberg ( 1982 ) described the extreme degree of variability found in Alcyonium coralloides from Europe . Like A. coralloides , A. fauri is highly variable not only in regard to ...
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... variable in length . Tightly contracted col- onies with terminal lobes globular or conical , 4-5 mm in length . Expanded colonies with terminal lobes finger - like , 2-4 mm in diameter and up to 15 mm in length . Terminal lobes numerous ...
... variable in length . Tightly contracted col- onies with terminal lobes globular or conical , 4-5 mm in length . Expanded colonies with terminal lobes finger - like , 2-4 mm in diameter and up to 15 mm in length . Terminal lobes numerous ...
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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