Annals of the South African MuseumAnnale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum . eads, and capstans, withsparsely spinose rods in the inner stalk and capitulum. Colour often red, rarelywhite. A genus of about nine species, north Atlantic to Bovet Island and the Indo-Pacific, mainly in deep water, 50-2 800 m; includes some of the deepest knownof all soft corals. Type species. Anthomastus grandiflorus Verrill, 1878, northern Atlantic. Anthomastus giganteus Tixier-Durivault, 1954 Figs 27-28 Anthomastus giganteus Tixier-Durivault, 1954: 526, figs 1, 2. DHondt, 1988: 271, text-fig. 5,pi. 1 (figs 9-12). Ma
Annals of the South African MuseumAnnale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum . eads, and capstans, withsparsely spinose rods in the inner stalk and capitulum. Colour often red, rarelywhite. A genus of about nine species, north Atlantic to Bovet Island and the Indo-Pacific, mainly in deep water, 50-2 800 m; includes some of the deepest knownof all soft corals. Type species. Anthomastus grandiflorus Verrill, 1878, northern Atlantic. Anthomastus giganteus Tixier-Durivault, 1954 Figs 27-28 Anthomastus giganteus Tixier-Durivault, 1954: 526, figs 1, 2. DHondt, 1988: 271, text-fig. 5,pi. 1 (figs 9-12). Material SAM-H3246 (paratype), off Cape Columbine (32°53,3S 17°30E), 309 m,27 September 1947, 2 colonies, dredge, coll. University of Cape Town Eco-logical Survey. SAM-H3666, Sandy Point, Transkei (32°39,2S 28°45,2E),450 m, 14 July 1984, 1 colony, dredge, coll. G. C. Williams ( MeiringNaude). SAM-H3667, Stony Point, Transkei (32°38,9S 28°45,0E), 360 m,12 July 1984, 3 colonies, dredge, coll. G. C. Williams ( Meiring Naude). SOFT CORALS OF SOUTHERN AFRICA 303. Fig. 27. Anthomastus giganteus Tixier-Durivault, 1954. A. Two entire colonies, 40 mm in length (top) and 138 mm in length (bottom). B. Stalk sclerites. C. Sclerites from pinnules of tentacles. B-C. Scale bar = 0,1 mm. 304 ANNALS OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN MUSEUM
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