Methodology: observation_field

ID: 19

Description:

Direct observation in the field

Used for traits:

• Colony bleached
• Colony part
• Habitat type
• Health status of the reef
• Turbidity
• Year
• Depth lower
• Depth upper
• Depth zone
• Feeding mechanism
• Light zone
• Type locality depth
• Water clarity preference
• Climate zone
• Marine province
• Marine realm
• Ocean basin
• Branching architecture
• Colony height
• Colony width
• Growth form
• Growth form (basic octocorallia)
• Growth form (detailed octocorallia)
• Polyp dimorphism
• Polyp height
• Polyp retractability
• Rachis length
• Symmetry of rachis
• Trunk diameter
• Type of growth
• Colony age
• Longevity
• Asexual reproduction mode
• Mode of larval development
• Reproductive period
• Sexual system
• Spawning date

Added by: Joshua Madin

Observations using this methodology

Melithaea delicata

• 254874

  Depth zone

  shallow (cat)

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• 254872

  Marine province

  Andaman (cat)

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Melithaea dichotoma

• 257753

  Ocean basin

  Pacific (cat)

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• 257754

  Climate zone

  temperate (cat)

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• 257757

  2 trait measurements

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• 257755

  Marine realm

  Temperate Northern Pacific (cat)

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• 257756

  Marine province

  Warm Temperate Northwest Pacific (cat)

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Melithaea doederleini

• 235442

  Marine province

  Warm Temperate Northwest Pacific (cat)

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• 235441

  Marine realm

  Temperate Northern Pacific (cat)

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• 235440

  Climate zone

  temperate (cat)

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• 235439

  Ocean basin

  Pacific (cat)

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• 235438

  2 trait measurements

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Melithaea erythraea

• 227209

  Ocean basin

  Atlantic (cat)

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• 227208

  Ocean basin

  Pacific (cat)

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• 255958

  Ocean basin

  Pacific (cat)

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• 206883

  2 trait measurements

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Melithaea esperi

• 235174

  Marine province

  Sahul shelf (cat)

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• 235173

  Marine realm

  Central Indo-Pacific (cat)

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• 235172

  Climate zone

  tropical (cat)

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• 235171

  Ocean basin

  Pacific (cat)

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Melithaea flabellum

• 235177

  Climate zone

  tropical (cat)

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• 235176

  Ocean basin

  Pacific (cat)

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• 235175

  2 trait measurements

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• 231021

  2 trait measurements

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• 231019

  Ocean basin

  Pacific (cat)

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