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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... walls of primary polyps . Antho- steles long and slender , flaring slightly toward distal ends ; walls composed of inseparably fused tuberculate sclerites . Proximal portion of anthostele cavity may or may not be filled with ...
... walls of primary polyps . Antho- steles long and slender , flaring slightly toward distal ends ; walls composed of inseparably fused tuberculate sclerites . Proximal portion of anthostele cavity may or may not be filled with ...
Page 256
... walls . Stolons flattened , encrusting surface of rocks sponges , dead corals , or shells . Wall of polyp tube brittle and inflexible ; composed of inseparably fused sclerites that do not disassociate in concentrated sodium hypochlorite ...
... walls . Stolons flattened , encrusting surface of rocks sponges , dead corals , or shells . Wall of polyp tube brittle and inflexible ; composed of inseparably fused sclerites that do not disassociate in concentrated sodium hypochlorite ...
Page 346
... walls sometimes partly fused forming clumps Carijoa sp . Polyps solitary or sometimes producing one lateral secondary polyp . Sclerites of polyp walls are free , not fusing to form clumps 8 Retracted polyps form low rounded or conical ...
... walls sometimes partly fused forming clumps Carijoa sp . Polyps solitary or sometimes producing one lateral secondary polyp . Sclerites of polyp walls are free , not fusing to form clumps 8 Retracted polyps form low rounded or conical ...
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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