Growth form

ID: 206

Class: Morphological

Description:

The growth form of a coral colony measured in the field or during an experiment. The range of growth form categories is not constrained (i.e., growth forms should be named as they were in the original resource or dataset), and therefore the number of categories will become large.

Standards:

• Category (cat) default

Methodologies:

• Derived from photographs of live colonies
• Derived from photographs of specimens
• Derived from textual description
• Examination of collected specimens
• Extracted from data table
• Extracted from tabular key
• Identification key
• Image analysis
• inferred
• observation_field
• Species-specific value inherited from family level
• Species-specific value inherited from genus level
• Textual description in identification guide
• Trait value coded using a compilation of data from previous works
• Trait value derived from DORIS online identification guide, based on expert opinions
• Trait value derived from Fabricius and Alderslade (2001)
• Trait value derived from Picton, B.E. & Morrow, C.C. (2016) online identification guide

Editor: Joshua Madin (contact)

Observations

Leptogorgia waltonae

• 247676

  Growth form

  bushy (cat)

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Leptophyton benayahui

• 236254

  Growth form

  lobate (cat)

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• 231302

  Growth form

  bushy (cat)

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• 210946

  Growth form

  lobate (cat)

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Leptophyton fustis

• 236260

  Growth form

  lobate (cat)

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• 225151

  Growth form

  branched lobate (cat)

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Litophyton acuticonicum

• 273557

  Growth form

  arborescent (cat)

  Show
• 223259

  Growth form

  tree-like to bushy (cat)

  Show
• 254470

  Growth form

  arborescent (cat)

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Litophyton acutum

• 237057

  Growth form

  arborescent (cat)

  Show
• 273558

  Growth form

  arborescent (cat)

  Show
• 223260

  Growth form

  tree-like to bushy (cat)

  Show

Litophyton amentaceum

• 273559

  Growth form

  arborescent (cat)

  Show
• 223261

  Growth form

  tree-like to bushy (cat)

  Show

Litophyton arboreum

• 236046

  Growth form

  bushy (cat)

  Show
• 273259

  Growth form

  arborescent (cat)

  Show
• 223258

  Growth form

  tree-like to bushy (cat)

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Litophyton armatum

• 273560

  Growth form

  arborescent (cat)

  Show
• 223262

  Growth form

  tree-like to bushy (cat)

  Show

Litophyton bayeri

• 273561

  Growth form

  arborescent (cat)

  Show
• 223263

  Growth form

  tree-like to bushy (cat)

  Show

Litophyton bedfordi

• 273562

  Growth form

  arborescent (cat)

  Show
• 223264

  Growth form

  tree-like to bushy (cat)

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Litophyton brachiatum

• 237177

  Growth form

  arborescent (cat)

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• 273563

  Growth form

  arborescent (cat)

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