Methodology: Dissecting microscope

ID: 273

Description:

Also called stereomicroscope

Used for traits:

• Axis presence
• Type of skeleton
• Polyp type
• Size of prey items
• Branch diameter
• Calyx height
• Calyx width
• Coloniality
• Colony height
• Colony width
• Coordination of polyps
• Distance between polyps
• Peduncle length
• Polyp density
• Polyp diameter
• Polyp dimorphism
• Polyp height
• Polyp retractability
• Polyps per polyp leaf
• Polyps per whorl
• Polyp whorl diameter
• Polyp whorls/pairs per lenght unit
• Rachis length
• Symmetry of rachis
• Tentacle length
• Trunk diameter
• Symbiont density
• Zooxanthellate
• Mode of larval development
• Polyp fecundity

Added by: Daniel Gomez Gras

Observations using this methodology

Heteroxenia elisabethae

• 259792

  2 trait measurements

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Ignis rubeus

• 256450

  Polyp dimorphism

  0.00 (bin)

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• 256452

  Axis presence

  0.00 (bin)

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• 256449

  Polyp retractability

  0.00 (bin)

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• 256448

  Coloniality

  solitary (cat)

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• 256451

  Type of skeleton

  No axis, unconsolidated sclerites embedded in tissue (cat)

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• 256445

  2 trait measurements

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• 256447

  Zooxanthellate

  azooxanthellate (cat)

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Inconstantia exigua

• 234428

  2 trait measurements

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Inconstantia pannucea

• 234441

  2 trait measurements

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Iridogorgia fontinalis

• 253631

  Polyp height

  1 (mm)

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• 253628

  3 trait measurements

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• 253632

  Distance between polyps

  7.00 (mm)

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Iridogorgia magnispiralis

• 253608

  Distance between polyps

  6.50 (mm)

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• 253607

  3 trait measurements

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Iridogorgia pourtalesii

• 253597

  Branch diameter

  1 (mm)

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• 253596

  Distance between polyps

  5.50 (mm)

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• 253593

  3 trait measurements

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Iridogorgia splendens

• 253620

  Distance between polyps

  7.25 (mm)

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• 253619

  2 trait measurements

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• 253616

  4 trait measurements

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Isidella trichotoma

• 241397

  2 trait measurements

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Isidoides armata

• 253659

  Coordination of polyps

  biserial (cat)

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• 253658

  Polyp retractability

  0.00 (bin)

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• 253656

  2 trait measurements

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