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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Page 69
... rows . Family Funiculinidae Gray , 1870 Elongate , whip - like colonies with polyps arranged biserially , often covering the lateral and ventral surfaces of the rachis . Polyps are retractile into tubular , eight - toothed calyces ...
... rows . Family Funiculinidae Gray , 1870 Elongate , whip - like colonies with polyps arranged biserially , often covering the lateral and ventral surfaces of the rachis . Polyps are retractile into tubular , eight - toothed calyces ...
Page 97
... rows , 3-7 ( usually 4–6 ) per row . Some rows form basal ridges by fusion of proximal regions of autozooids . In some rows , circular or elliptical walls of the basal ridge surround individual autozooids or groups of two or three ...
... rows , 3-7 ( usually 4–6 ) per row . Some rows form basal ridges by fusion of proximal regions of autozooids . In some rows , circular or elliptical walls of the basal ridge surround individual autozooids or groups of two or three ...
Page 105
... row along the basal dorsal margin of each polyp leaf . Siphonozooids without sclerites , crowded in narrow band on rachis above each polyp leaf . Colonies with 26-37 rows of siphonozooids on each side , representing one row per polyp ...
... row along the basal dorsal margin of each polyp leaf . Siphonozooids without sclerites , crowded in narrow band on rachis above each polyp leaf . Colonies with 26-37 rows of siphonozooids on each side , representing one row per polyp ...
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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