. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. Fig. 66. Thouarella hicksoni Thomson, 1911. A. An entire colony, 160 mm in height. B. Detail of a terminal branch showing ten polyps; total length of figure 6 mm. in shape, and with coarse tuberculation proximally. Coenenchymal scales are thin and irregularly ovoid. Colony colour pale yellowish to cream-white. Distribution Namaqualand coast (South African west coast) to the coast of the Transkei, 100-860 m in depth (Williams in press a). Type locality is Cape St Francis (Cape south coast). Family Isi
. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. Fig. 66. Thouarella hicksoni Thomson, 1911. A. An entire colony, 160 mm in height. B. Detail of a terminal branch showing ten polyps; total length of figure 6 mm. in shape, and with coarse tuberculation proximally. Coenenchymal scales are thin and irregularly ovoid. Colony colour pale yellowish to cream-white. Distribution Namaqualand coast (South African west coast) to the coast of the Transkei, 100-860 m in depth (Williams in press a). Type locality is Cape St Francis (Cape south coast). Family Isididae Lamouroux, 1812 Axis composed of nodes of horn and internodes of non-spicular calcium carbonate. Holdfasts are root-like for soft substrata or disc-like for hard. 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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