. The Danish Ingolf-expedition. Marine animals -- Arctic regions; Scientific expeditions; Arctic regions. 54 ( The colour of the mieoiiiieuji are white or greyish in alcohol, V^ that the livinj; colonies arc ii liriyht Kjii itiics of ri>ht. The zooid!! are riosw-ly pluccil on all siiles of the stems ami hranches towanlit the tij) of the hraiuhes much crowdcti, yfiicnillv leaving! no coenenchynia free between them. In a single. Kig. 23. Acanthogorqia nrmaUi Vcrrili. ii-<j, roronai scieritos. c, of about usual maximum size, h, srleritvs of zooid body in natural position, dotte
. The Danish Ingolf-expedition. Marine animals -- Arctic regions; Scientific expeditions; Arctic regions. 54 ( The colour of the mieoiiiieuji are white or greyish in alcohol, V^ that the livinj; colonies arc ii liriyht Kjii itiics of ri>ht. The zooid!! are riosw-ly pluccil on all siiles of the stems ami hranches towanlit the tij) of the hraiuhes much crowdcti, yfiicnillv leaving! no coenenchynia free between them. In a single. Kig. 23. Acanthogorqia nrmaUi Vcrrili. ii-<j, roronai scieritos. c, of about usual maximum size, h, srleritvs of zooid body in natural position, dotted liuR inilirates the attarhnient of tlio mesonterips. sjiecimen the zooids arc liki-wis*' crow<lcil from the liasc to the tip of the colony. The zooids are cylindrical, slightly widened at the corona, and measure with contracted tentacles jjenerally 0-7 nnn in length l)y mm in width, their ajipearance then as shown in Ver- RlLLs figures ( pi. 3 fig.'i. 1, 1 a). They may measure uji to H .onding to the figured bv in ])1. 3 fig. \h. In the zooid Iwdy the .s<'lerites are long, slender, .spinous, |M'id mm at the middle, and cor- responding measures weri' given by \°errim, (1KH3 p. 33). Tlic largest measured spindle of this type measured about In the up]>er [lart of the zooiil there is in distinct iteck region, hut in some zfKiids the .sclerites below the corona may be .some- what shorter, not so cur%ed and more transversally arranged thjiti tlwi-^'- i>r tin- main 7ri(ilil bitilv The corona is formed by some long, jjrojecting coronal scle- rites ill each interse])tal row below the tentacles, arranged en chevron as of the main zooid body and generally bent in a similar manner with the one ray strongly warty and the other, much longer and ]irojecting one, the socalled .sjiine, generally smooth in it-s whole length (fig. 23 c <eptal row and generallv a few much shorter and often straight ones may be found besides (
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