Annals of the South African Museum: Annale Van Die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum, Volume 108South African Museum, 2001 - Natural history |
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... colony . Description The large , ridged and folded colony is white in life , 45 mm thick , tough , impregnated with sediment but with little sand at the surface . The zooid apertures do not manifest any regular arrangement . When fixed ...
... colony . Description The large , ridged and folded colony is white in life , 45 mm thick , tough , impregnated with sediment but with little sand at the surface . The zooid apertures do not manifest any regular arrangement . When fixed ...
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... colony surface is either smooth or raised in tiny spots as the oral siphons protrude when the animal is contracted . The spicules are irregularly distributed and sometimes give the colony surface a thinly reticulated appearance under ...
... colony surface is either smooth or raised in tiny spots as the oral siphons protrude when the animal is contracted . The spicules are irregularly distributed and sometimes give the colony surface a thinly reticulated appearance under ...
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Annale Van Die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum South African Museum. Description The two colonies from different stations are encrustations , 2-4 mm thick with a smooth surface . The common cloacal openings are stellate . The colony surface is ...
Annale Van Die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum South African Museum. Description The two colonies from different stations are encrustations , 2-4 mm thick with a smooth surface . The common cloacal openings are stellate . The colony surface is ...
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Other ascidians recorded in South Africa but not present in this collection | 127 |
Acknowledgements | 134 |
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abdomen adhesive papillae Alonsoa ampullae apical hair bands apical margin Aplidium ascidians basal basitarsus black hairs body wall Botryllus branched hairs branchial sac Clanwilliam cloacal aperture cloacal siphon clypeus collected colony surface dark brown Description Diascia Didemnum DIEGO disc Dorsal and ventral dorsal lamina dorsal tubercle False Bay farm Female fimbriae folds foreleg forewing genus gonads gut loop Hartmeyer hind tibia Holotype intertidal Kott KwaZulu-Natal labrum languet larvae lateral lobes length light brown locality malar space Male material median Melittidae Mesosoma Metasoma Michaelsen Millar Monniot coll Moraea nectar Nieuwoudtville oil-collecting hairs ºº oral siphon oral tentacles ovary pale straw-coloured papillae Piketberg posterior prementum propodeum protruding pubescence Rediviva Remarks and distribution rows of stigmata scutum Sept short Sluiter Sodwana Bay South Africa species specimens spicules Steiner stigmata stomach surface between punctures testis thorax tibia tunic ventral view vesicles Vestiture Whitehead zooids