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

Litophyton acuticonicum

• 254478

  Polyp diameter

  0.60 (mm)

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Litophyton acutum

• 237058

  2 trait measurements

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Litophyton brachiatum

• 237178

  2 trait measurements

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Litophyton brewerensis

• 237088

  2 trait measurements

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Litophyton burfordensis

• 237188

  2 trait measurements

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Litophyton carnatum

• 237148

  2 trait measurements

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Litophyton cockburnensis

• 236959

  2 trait measurements

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Litophyton crassum

• 237196

  2 trait measurements

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Litophyton darleyensis

• 237204

  2 trait measurements

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Litophyton daviesensis

• 236969

  2 trait measurements

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Litophyton dipensis

• 236979

  2 trait measurements

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Litophyton elfordensis

• 236988

  2 trait measurements

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Litophyton folium

• 237214

  2 trait measurements

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Litophyton fusum

• 237224

  2 trait measurements

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Litophyton graafae

• 236998

  2 trait measurements

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Litophyton grandis

• 237158

  2 trait measurements

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Litophyton horseshoeensis

• 237233

  2 trait measurements

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Litophyton legiopolypum

• 237098

  2 trait measurements

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Litophyton mollis

• 237243

  2 trait measurements

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Litophyton myrmidonensis

• 237008

  2 trait measurements

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Litophyton obtusum

• 237068

  2 trait measurements

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Litophyton oxleyensis

• 237108

  2 trait measurements

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Litophyton pandoraensis

• 237168

  2 trait measurements

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Litophyton projectum

• 237018

  2 trait measurements

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Litophyton pseudorowleyensis

• 237028

  2 trait measurements

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