Methodology: Derived from textual description

ID: 22

Description:

Typically a group opinion that has been derived from text about a coral colony or species.

Used for traits:

• Axis presence
• Calcareous sclerites presence
• Larval swimming speed
• Main non-scleritic skeletal component
• Substrate attachment
• Type of skeleton
• IUCN Red List category
• Polyp type
• Water temperature
• Abundance GBR
• Abundance world
• Colony contractability
• Depth lower
• Depth upper
• Depth zone
• Light zone
• Type locality depth
• Water clarity preference
• Wave exposure preference
• Climate zone
• Marine province
• Marine realm
• Branch diameter
• Branching architecture
• Calyx height
• Calyx width
• Coloniality
• Colony height
• Colony maximum diameter
• Colony width
• Coordination of polyps
• Corallite width maximum
• Corallite width minimum
• Growth form
• Growth form (basic octocorallia)
• Growth form (detailed octocorallia)
• Growth outline type
• Number of pinnules per tentacle
• Polyp density
• Polyp diameter
• Polyp dimorphism
• Polyp height
• Polyp retractability
• Polyps per polyp leaf
• Rachis length
• Tentacle length
• Trunk diameter
• Type of growth
• Genus fossil age
• Genus fossil stage
• Growth rate
• Longevity
• Symbiodinium clade
• Tissue thickness
• Zooxanthellate
• Age at maturity
• Asexual reproduction mode
• Frequency of reproduction
• Larval length
• Larval width
• Mode of larval development
• Oocyte size at maturity
• Oogenic cycle duration
• Polyp fecundity
• Propagule size on release
• Reproductive period
• Sexual system
• Size at maturity
• Spawning date

Added by: Joshua Madin

Observations using this methodology

Dendrogyra cylindrus

• 112969

  Colony maximum diameter

  200 (cm)

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• 133657

  Genus fossil age

  127 (mya)

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• 106483

  Substrate attachment

  attached (cat)

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Dendronephthya armata

• 233249

  Marine province

  Tropical Southwestern Pacific (cat)

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• 233247

  Climate zone

  tropical (cat)

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• 233248

  Marine realm

  Central Indo-Pacific (cat)

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Dendronephthya australis

• 240845

  Marine province

  East Central Australian Shelf (cat)

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• 213029

  2 trait measurements

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• 240844

  Marine realm

  Temperate Australasia (cat)

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• 213027

  Marine realm

  Central Indo-Pacific (cat)

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• 213028

  Climate zone

  temperate (cat)

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• 240847

  2 trait measurements

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• 208587

  5 trait measurements

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• 208333

  Zooxanthellate

  azooxanthellate (cat)

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• 240843

  Climate zone

  temperate (cat)

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Dendronephthya cervicornis

• 233251

  Climate zone

  tropical (cat)

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• 233252

  Marine realm

  Central Indo-Pacific (cat)

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• 233253

  Marine province

  Tropical Southwestern Pacific (cat)

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Dendronephthya echinata

• 233255

  Climate zone

  tropical (cat)

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• 233256

  Marine realm

  Central Indo-Pacific (cat)

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• 233257

  Marine province

  Tropical Southwestern Pacific (cat)

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Dendronephthya elegans

• 233260

  Marine realm

  Central Indo-Pacific (cat)

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• 233261

  Marine province

  Tropical Southwestern Pacific (cat)

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• 233259

  Climate zone

  tropical (cat)

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Dendronephthya filigrana

• 233263

  Climate zone

  tropical (cat)

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