Type of skeleton (Bathytelesto tubuliporoides)

ID: 561

Class: Biomechanical

Description:

The type of skeleton present in a given octocoral species. Categories were selected based on McFadden et al. 2022

Standards:

• Category (cat) default

Methodologies:

• Dissecting microscope
• Species-specific value inherited from genus level

Editor: Cathy McFadden (contact)

Observations

Bathytelesto tubuliporoides

• 254187

  Type of skeleton

  No axis, calcified structures (e.g., polyp tubes, branches and/or membranes) derived of fused sclerites (cat)

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• 299684

  Type of skeleton

  No axis, calcified structures (e.g., polyp tubes, branches and/or membranes) derived of fused sclerites (cat)

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