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

Melithaea keramaensis

• 235478

  Growth form

  branched planar (cat)

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Melithaea kuea

• 281323

  Growth form

  fan-like (cat)

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Melithaea maldivensis

• 230965

  Growth form

  branched planar (cat)

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Melithaea modesta

• 235488

  Growth form

  branched planar (cat)

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Melithaea mutsu

• 235497

  Growth form

  bushy (cat)

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Melithaea nodosa

• 235507

  Growth form

  branched planar (cat)

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Melithaea ochracea

• 250021

  Growth form

  branched planar (cat)

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• 254246

  Growth form

  fan-sahped multi-planar (cat)

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• 281294

  Growth form

  fan-like (cat)

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• 212907

  Growth form

  branched planar (cat)

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• 259142

  Growth form

  branched planar (cat)

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Melithaea omanensis

• 230972

  Growth form

  branched planar (cat)

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Melithaea ouvea

• 281332

  Growth form

  fan-like (cat)

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Melithaea oyeni

• 235516

  Growth form

  branched planar (cat)

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Melithaea pulchra

• 259382

  Growth form

  branched in all directions (cat)

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Melithaea retifera

• 246841

  Growth form

  branched planar (cat)

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• 231358

  Growth form

  branched planar (cat)

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Melithaea robusta

• 250033

  Growth form

  branched planar (cat)

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• 231366

  Growth form

  branched planar (cat)

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Melithaea rubeola

• 230979

  Growth form

  bushy (several parallel planes) (cat)

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• 250027

  Growth form

  branched planar (cat)

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• 231350

  Growth form

  branched planar (cat)

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Melithaea rubra

• 235250

  Growth form

  branched planar (cat)

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Melithaea rubrinodis

• 211477

  Growth form

  bushy (cat)

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Melithaea ryukyuensis

• 235526

  Growth form

  branched planar (cat)

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