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Order: Alcyonacea (soft corals)

Life > Eukaryotes > Opisthokonta > Metazoa (animals) > Cnidaria > Anthozoa > Octocorallia

Alcyonium fauri - purple form

 

 Buffels Bay, False Bay, 9 m; March 1984. [photo by G. Williams ©]

Alcyonium 'magenta/white'

 

Mngazi River, Transkei, 300 m; July 1985  [photo by G. Williams ©]

Alcyonium planiceps

 

off Llandudno, 21-30 m; January 1984  [photo by G. Williams ©]

Alcyonium "rubrum"

 

Port Durnford, 52 m; June 1988.  [photo by G. Williams ©]

Alcyonium valdiviae

 

Hottentots Huisie, 14 m; March 1984. [photo by G. Williams ©]

Alcyonium variabile

 

Hottentots Huisie, 22 m; June 1983. [photo by G. Williams ©]

 

 

Hottentots Huisie, 22 m; June 1983. [photo by G. Williams ©]

 

 

Hottentots Huisie, 13-16 m; August 1983. [photo by G. Williams ©]

Anthelia sp.

 

 

 

 

Vetchies Pier, Durban, 2 m; July 1984 [photo by G. Williams ©]

Capnella thyrsoides

 

Hottentots Huisie, 22 m; June 1983. [photo by G. Williams ©]

Dendronephthya sp.

 

Mission Rocks, Zululand, 198 m; June 1988. [photo by G. Williams ©]

Malacacanthus capensis

 

Off Llandudno, 24 m; March 1984. [photo by G. Williams ©]

 

 

Off Llandudno, 27 m; Sept 1983. [photo by G. Williams ©]

Pieterfaurea khoisaniana

 

off Danger Point, 48 m; April 1984 [photo by G. Williams ©]