Annals of the South African MuseumAnnale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum . ranching sclerites. Basalportion of anthostele with 8 longitudinal canals formed by thin calcareousseptae. Canals filled with intrusion of fused sclerites. Upper part of anthosteleand anthocodia with free sclerites of tuberculated rods and crosses less than0,1 mm in length. Colour white. Distribution The species is reported from the Azores, Crete, Iceland, Agulhas Banksouth of Knysna (Cape Province), and northern Natal, South Africa (Bayer1981a: 883; Williams in press a). Type locality is south of Iceland. Remarks The pr
Annals of the South African MuseumAnnale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum . ranching sclerites. Basalportion of anthostele with 8 longitudinal canals formed by thin calcareousseptae. Canals filled with intrusion of fused sclerites. Upper part of anthosteleand anthocodia with free sclerites of tuberculated rods and crosses less than0,1 mm in length. Colour white. Distribution The species is reported from the Azores, Crete, Iceland, Agulhas Banksouth of Knysna (Cape Province), and northern Natal, South Africa (Bayer1981a: 883; Williams in press a). Type locality is south of Iceland. Remarks The proximal portion of a single anthostele and part of a stolon(SAM-H3795) attached to the base of a dried skeleton of the solitary sclerac-tinian coral, Trochocyathus rawsonii (sensu Gardiner 1904, non Pourtales, 1874)(SAM-H3191), is held in the SAM collection. This partial specimen is insuffi-cient material to give an adequate description of the species. (See Bayer (1981a:881) and Madsen (1944: 11) for detailed descriptions and figures.) SOFT CORALS OF SOUTHERN AFRICA 259. Fig. 3. Scanning electron micrographs of Bathytelesto tubuliporoides Williams, 198%. A. A single anthostele, 3,0 mm in length, with anthocodia removed. B. Same, showing under- view of stolon. C. Another anthostele, 4,6 mm in length. D-H. Free anthostelar sclerites. D. 0,15 mm. E. 0,054 mm. F. 0,10 mm. G. 0,15 mm. H. Both 0,13 mm. 260 ANNALS OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN MUSEUM Subfamily Sarcodictyinae Bayer, 1981a Polyp calyces low, often retracting almost completely into stolons; orcalyces non-retractile, conical to tall cylindrical. Polyps do not bud secondarylateral polyps. Sclerites often slightly flattened to plate-like. Five genera. Genus Sarcodictyon Forbes, in Johnston, 1847 Evagora Philippi, 1842: 36. Kiikenthal, 1916: 458. Molander, 1929a: 40. non Evagora Peron & Lesueur, 1810 (Hydrozoa). Laporte & Gory, 1839 (Coleoptera). Sarcodictyon Forbes, in Johnston, 1847: 179. Hickson, 1930: 210 (part.). Deichmann, 1936:
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