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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... separated by intervals of bare rachis . Axis thin and delicate , extending entire length of colony . Siphonozooids few and scattered on rachis . Calyces absent . Sclerites present or absent . A family of two genera from the North ...
... separated by intervals of bare rachis . Axis thin and delicate , extending entire length of colony . Siphonozooids few and scattered on rachis . Calyces absent . Sclerites present or absent . A family of two genera from the North ...
Page 76
... separated whorls . One to four polyps per whorl . Polyps without calyces . Siphonozooids few and incon- spicuous , on rachis between autozooids . Sclerites absent except for minute oval bodies in the interior of the peduncle . Two ...
... separated whorls . One to four polyps per whorl . Polyps without calyces . Siphonozooids few and incon- spicuous , on rachis between autozooids . Sclerites absent except for minute oval bodies in the interior of the peduncle . Two ...
Page 78
... separated by 30-60 mm intervals of bare rachis . Autozooids vary from 3 mm to 15 mm in length in a preserved state . Siphonozooids few and inconspicuous on the rachis at each autozooid whorl , consistent in form and size throughout the ...
... separated by 30-60 mm intervals of bare rachis . Autozooids vary from 3 mm to 15 mm in length in a preserved state . Siphonozooids few and inconspicuous on the rachis at each autozooid whorl , consistent in form and size throughout the ...
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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