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 78
... width . Peduncle up to 50 mm in length and 3-4 mm in width . Sclerites absent except for minute oval bodies up to 0,02 mm long in the interior of the lower peduncle of all colonies examined . Autozooids greyish with brown tentacles ...
... width . Peduncle up to 50 mm in length and 3-4 mm in width . Sclerites absent except for minute oval bodies up to 0,02 mm long in the interior of the lower peduncle of all colonies examined . Autozooids greyish with brown tentacles ...
Page 84
... width . Peduncle up to 150 mm long by 6 mm in width . Umbellate terminal cluster with 8-10 autozooids , each 20-30 mm long . Siphono- zooids numerous on keel - like terminus of rachis . Sclerites totally absent . Distribution ( Fig . 40 ) ...
... width . Peduncle up to 150 mm long by 6 mm in width . Umbellate terminal cluster with 8-10 autozooids , each 20-30 mm long . Siphono- zooids numerous on keel - like terminus of rachis . Sclerites totally absent . Distribution ( Fig . 40 ) ...
Page 105
... width . This tract is widest in the distal half of the rachis . Polyp leaves well developed , up to 40 mm in length and 16 mm in width , 26-37 pairs of polyp leaves per colony . Autozooids 29-42 per polyp leaf , in usually 2 or 3 ill ...
... width . This tract is widest in the distal half of the rachis . Polyp leaves well developed , up to 40 mm in length and 16 mm in width , 26-37 pairs of polyp leaves per colony . Autozooids 29-42 per polyp leaf , in usually 2 or 3 ill ...
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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