Annals of the South African MuseumAnnale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum . unbranched; digitiform, capitate, or digitate. Polyps monomor-phic. Retracted polyps form distinct hemispherical, cup-like or dish-like per-manent calyces on the capitulum surface. Anthocodia completely retractile intocalyx, sometimes forming a low rounded eight-rayed protuberance inside thecalicular cup. Sclerites are primarily eight-radiates and capstans. A genus of perhaps 15 species of the Indo-West Pacific; three species insouthern Africa. Type species. Eleutherobia japonica Putter, 1900, Japan. Eleutherobia rotifer
Annals of the South African MuseumAnnale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum . unbranched; digitiform, capitate, or digitate. Polyps monomor-phic. Retracted polyps form distinct hemispherical, cup-like or dish-like per-manent calyces on the capitulum surface. Anthocodia completely retractile intocalyx, sometimes forming a low rounded eight-rayed protuberance inside thecalicular cup. Sclerites are primarily eight-radiates and capstans. A genus of perhaps 15 species of the Indo-West Pacific; three species insouthern Africa. Type species. Eleutherobia japonica Putter, 1900, Japan. Eleutherobia rotifera (Thomson, 1910) Figs 29, 30D-F Alcyonium rotiferum Thomson, 1910: 573, pi. 1 (figs 3, 4), pi. 4 (fig. 38); 1923: 47, 50, rotifera (Thomson, 1910) Verseveldt & Bayer, 1988: 36, figs 18c, 29 {part.). Material SAM-H566 (type material) Keiskamma Point, eastern Cape Province(33°15S 27°30E), 60 m, 27 August 1901, 2 colonies, dredge, Pieter Fauresurvey, PF 13553. SAM-H849 and H850, Great Fish Point, eastern Cape SOFT CORALS OF SOUTHERN AFRICA 307. Fig. 29. Eleutherobia rotifera Thomson, 1910. A. Entire colony, 30 mm in length. B. Entire colony, 35 mm in length. C. Polyparium sclerites. D. Stalk sclerites. C-D. Scale bar = 0,1 mm. 308 ANNALS OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN MUSEUM Province (33°30S 27°10E), 90 m, 4 September 1901, 11 colonies, dredge, Pieter Faure survey, PF 13727 and PF 13727B. Description The colonies that were examined range in length from 20 to 35 are upright, digitate; 3-8 finger-like unbranched lobes arise form aprominent robust stalk. Lobes are up to 15 mm long and 4 mm wide. Stalk witha broad base forming an extended holdfast. Surface of preserved coloniesmarkedly wrinkled or pustulate. Polyps restricted to lobes. Anthocodiae com-pletely retractile into prominent, rounded calyces up to 1,5 mm in numerous in stalk, lobes and calyces; almost exclusively compact6-8 radiate capstans, 0,030-0,065 mm in length. Colour
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