Annals of the South African MuseumAnnale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum . ion, very common in the Indo-Pacific. Genus Acrophytum Hickson, 1900Acrophytum Hickson, 1900: 74. Bayer, 1981ft: 913. Diagnosis Colonies digitiform: unbranched, finger-like. Stalk length usually less thanone-half of total length. Polypary conical, elongate, tapering distally withrounded terminus. Polyps dimorphic. Sclerites are primarily tuberculated clubs,or club-shaped spindles, coarsely warty, up to 0,35 mm long. Sclerites dense insurface coenenchyme of polyparium and stalk, sparse or absent in the interior. A monotyp
Annals of the South African MuseumAnnale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum . ion, very common in the Indo-Pacific. Genus Acrophytum Hickson, 1900Acrophytum Hickson, 1900: 74. Bayer, 1981ft: 913. Diagnosis Colonies digitiform: unbranched, finger-like. Stalk length usually less thanone-half of total length. Polypary conical, elongate, tapering distally withrounded terminus. Polyps dimorphic. Sclerites are primarily tuberculated clubs,or club-shaped spindles, coarsely warty, up to 0,35 mm long. Sclerites dense insurface coenenchyme of polyparium and stalk, sparse or absent in the interior. A monotypic genus of the southern and eastern coast of South Africa. Type species. Acrophytum claviger Hickson, 1900 (by monotypy); SouthAfrica. Acrophytum claviger Hickson, 1900 Figs 7-8 Acrophytum claviger Hickson, 1900: 74, pi. 4 (figs 4, 4). Thomson, 1921: 170; 1923: 47, 69. Broch, 1939: 11. Bayer, 1956: 188. Alderslade, 1985: 105, figs natalensis Thomson, 1910: 559, pi. 1 (fig. 2), pi. 3 (figs 15, 18), pi. 4 (fig. 39a-c). SOFT CORALS OF SOUTHERN AFRICA 267. Fig. 6. Tubipora musica Linnaeus, 1758. A. Lateral view of a beach-worn skeleton of acolony; length of photograph = 105 mm. B. Dorsal view of same; length of photo-graph = 95 mm. 268 ANNALS OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN MUSEUM Material SAM-H967 (paralectotype), Algoa Bay (33°5315S 25°5143E), 47 m,6 December 1898, 1 colony, coll. not known. SAM-H910, off Great Fish Point,eastern Cape Province (33°30S 27°10E), 64 m, 20 May 1905, 2 colonies, largetrawl, coll. Pieter Fame survey, PF 18703. SAM-H911, off Cove Rocksouth-west of East London (33°06S 27°49E), 36-55 m, 6 June 1905, 1 colony,large trawl, Pieter Fame survey, PF 18706. SAM-H1039, off Great FishPoint (33°30S 27°10E), 64 m, 20 May 1905, 1 colony, large trawl, PieterFame survey, PF 18703. Description Colonies examined are up to 150 mm in length. The stalk varies from onefourth to one-half total colony length, but commonly less than one third. Col-
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