Annals of the South African Museum: Annale Van Die Suid-Afrikaanse MuseumWest, Newman & Company for the trustees of the Museum, 1990 - Natural history |
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... Colour yellowish to orange - yellow Veretillum cynomorium 8B . Colonies long and narrow , clavate , with stalk equal to or longer than rachis . Siphonozooids not aligned in longitudinal rows . Colour cream to greyish- white ...
... Colour yellowish to orange - yellow Veretillum cynomorium 8B . Colonies long and narrow , clavate , with stalk equal to or longer than rachis . Siphonozooids not aligned in longitudinal rows . Colour cream to greyish- white ...
Page 39
... colour ... Pennatula inflata 26B . Polyps retract directly into outer margin of polyp leaf . Sclerites of polyp leaves are white or transparent spine - like needles up to 10 mm in length that align to form projecting supporting rays ...
... colour ... Pennatula inflata 26B . Polyps retract directly into outer margin of polyp leaf . Sclerites of polyp leaves are white or transparent spine - like needles up to 10 mm in length that align to form projecting supporting rays ...
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... Colour permanent , originating within the sclerites . Distribution ( Fig . 39 ) This species is presumably a southern African endemic , known from off Cape Columbine on the west coast of South Africa to Inhaca Island , Mozambique , at ...
... Colour permanent , originating within the sclerites . Distribution ( Fig . 39 ) This species is presumably a southern African endemic , known from off Cape Columbine on the west coast of South Africa to Inhaca Island , Mozambique , at ...
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absent Actinoptilum molle Adjacent polyps Alcyonaria Amphiacme abyssorum Anthoptilum Anthozoa Atlantic autozooids axis Balss Calibelemnon calyces calyx calyx teeth Cape Town Cavernularia elegans Cavernulina coast cosmopolitan distribution D'Hondt depth Diagnosis Colonies distal Distichoptilum gracile Distribution Fig dorsal dredge Echinoptilum echinatum Echinoptilum macintoshii elongate Entire colony False Bay Family fauna G. C. Williams genera genus Grasshoff Halipteris Herklots Hickson Hubrecht Indian Ocean Indo-Pacific J. A. Thomson Kölliker Kophobelemnon stelliferum Kükenthal & Broch Kükenthal 1915 leaf Linnaeus Lituaria Material mesozooids micrographs of sclerites minute ovals Mozambique Namibia Natal numerous Pallas partim Pasternak peduncle peduncular Pennatula inflata pennatulaceans polyp leaves Polyps arranged proximal portions Pteroeides isosceles quadrangular R.V. Meiring Naude rachis record region retractile Scale sclerites Sclerites from surface Scleroptilum sea pens Siphonozooids South Africa South African Museum southern Africa specimens surface of peduncle synonymy tentacles terminal teeth three-flanged spindles Tixier-Durivault Transkei trawl type locality Type species Veretillum Verrill Virgularia schultzei whorl