. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. GORGONIAN OCTOCORALS OF SOUTHERN AFRICA 237. Fig. 38. Leptogorgia capensis (Hickson, 1900). Coenenchymal sclerites. Scale bar = 0,15 mm. Distribution Presently known from the south coast of South Africa from False Bay to Algoa Bay, 46-73 m in depth. Type locality Cape St Blaize, Cape south coast. Remarks This species has sclerites with symmetrical whorls of tubercles and no scaph- oids (C-shaped spindles with tubercles on the convex side modified or reduced) are present. Thus it is assignable to the
. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. GORGONIAN OCTOCORALS OF SOUTHERN AFRICA 237. Fig. 38. Leptogorgia capensis (Hickson, 1900). Coenenchymal sclerites. Scale bar = 0,15 mm. Distribution Presently known from the south coast of South Africa from False Bay to Algoa Bay, 46-73 m in depth. Type locality Cape St Blaize, Cape south coast. Remarks This species has sclerites with symmetrical whorls of tubercles and no scaph- oids (C-shaped spindles with tubercles on the convex side modified or reduced) are present. Thus it is assignable to the genus Leptogorgia (which may have. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original South African Museum. Cape Town : The Museum
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