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

Plumarella recta

• 254049

  Polyp density

  8.00 (units cm^-1)

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Plumarella superba

• 259374

  3 trait measurements

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Primnoa bisquama

• 254597

  3 trait measurements

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Primnoeides flagellum

• 254618

  4 trait measurements

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Primnoisis ambigua

• 250870

  Distance between polyps

  0.75 (mm)

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• 250866

  2 trait measurements

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• 250869

  Branch diameter

  0.40 (mm)

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Primnoisis (Delicatisis) delicatula

• 250792

  Polyp height

  0.78 (mm)

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• 250793

  Polyp diameter

  0.45 (mm)

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• 250796

  Distance between polyps

  2.00 (mm)

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Primnoisis (Delicatisis) formosa

• 250806

  Polyp height

  0.65 (mm)

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• 250812

  Mode of larval development

  brooder (cat)

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• 250811

  Branch diameter

  0.45 (mm)

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• 250810

  Distance between polyps

  0.75 (mm)

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• 250807

  Polyp diameter

  0.42 (mm)

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Primnoisis (Delicatisis) gracilis

• 250827

  Branch diameter

  0.44 (mm)

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• 250824

  2 trait measurements

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Primnoisis (Delicatisis) millerae

• 250837

  2 trait measurements

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• 250842

  Mode of larval development

  brooder (cat)

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• 250841

  Distance between polyps

  0.85 (mm)

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• 250840

  Branch diameter

  1.20 (mm)

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Primnoisis (Delicatisis) niwa

• 250854

  Branch diameter

  1.20 (mm)

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• 250851

  2 trait measurements

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• 250855

  Distance between polyps

  1.20 (mm)

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Primnoisis (Delicatisis) rigida

• 250779

  2 trait measurements

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