. The Danish Ingolf-expedition. Marine animals -- Arctic regions; Scientific expeditions; Arctic regions. OCTOCORALLIA 4'. I leiifitli varies from ).1 nun ami tlu'ir widtli from ().in- nulae are i;enerallv provided with two or a few slender, scale-like, somewhat twisted sclerites (fii,'. 41 r-w) the largest of whieh measure about mm. In some zooids, in tlir Icjwer half of the tentacles or m the ujjper part of the zooid body, a few sclerites may be found which differ from the typical ones in beinji more slender and s])indle- shajjed, though usually more or less flattened (tig. 41
. The Danish Ingolf-expedition. Marine animals -- Arctic regions; Scientific expeditions; Arctic regions. OCTOCORALLIA 4'. I leiifitli varies from ).1 nun ami tlu'ir widtli from ().in- nulae are i;enerallv provided with two or a few slender, scale-like, somewhat twisted sclerites (fii,'. 41 r-w) the largest of whieh measure about mm. In some zooids, in tlir Icjwer half of the tentacles or m the ujjper part of the zooid body, a few sclerites may be found which differ from the typical ones in beinji more slender and s])indle- shajjed, though usually more or less flattened (tig. 41 f-li). In the juvenile colonies, where, as already mentioned, the sclerites . 222) the axis as "tall, slender, terete, tapering to a flexible ti])" and just this axis, which in the larger colonies is rigid and <inlv is tiexiblc to- wards the tip, seems to be a characteristical featui'e in this sjjecies in comparison with the other .sj)ecies of Rddicliiea. Likewise Verrili/s descri])tion of the general apjiearance of the colony and his .statement of the intervals, and the diameter of the zooids and stem well with the material of the "Ingolf" Rx]ieditioii. Verrill states for the colonies a size of u]) to iio im and for the living colonies an orange or salmon colour. From the descriptions above of R. rhdIIeiK/eri and li. ijriuiUa it will lie evident that these two .sjjecies are cjuite distinct, and that Jun(:erse.\ in 1915 made a lajjse when he, though with a query, united them. By the closer examination of the .specimens, which , if he had lived, would have had to make before he was able to publish the rest of his intended reports on the northern Octocorals, he himself would certainlv have <lis- covered and corrected the error. is easily distinguished t'rcjni all other, pre\iouslv described, .species of Hadicipps esjieciallv liv its rigid, erect .stem, as the stem in all other sjjecies of Radicipen is coile
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