Hawaiian Octocorals — Bayer 
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DIAGNOSIS: Simple zooids less than 5 mm. 
tall arising from band-like stolons; walls of 
anthosteles with eight longitudinal grooves; 
anthocodiae completely retractile. Spicules of 
anthosteles and stolons oval, warty plates and 
smooth scales; anthocodial wall with warty 
rods and flat rods; tentacles with numerous 
flat rods transversely arranged and not ex- 
tending into the pinnules. 
DESCRIPTION: The colonies form creeping, 
ribbon-like stolons about 1 mm. wide, which 
expand a little at the points where the indi- 
Fig. 8. Telestula spkuUcola robusta n. subsp. Spicules of: a, the tentacles; b, the neck zone; c, the body tubes; 
d, the intrusion tissue; e, the stolon. Scale applies to all figures. 
