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

Metafannyella eos

• 255177

  Growth form

  uniplanar (cat)

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Metafannyella lepidota

• 255178

  Growth form

  uniplanar (cat)

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Metafannyella mawsoni

• 255179

  Growth form

  uniplanar (cat)

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Metafannyella polita

• 250455

  Growth form

  branched planar (cat)

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• 255180

  Growth form

  uniplanar (cat)

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Metafannyella ventilabrum

• 250454

  Growth form

  branched planar (cat)

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• 255181

  Growth form

  uniplanar (cat)

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Metallogorgia macrospina

• 244318

  Growth form

  bottlebrush (cat)

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• 244319

  Growth form

  stem with branches occurring only in the distal stem (cat)

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Metallogorgia melanotrichos

• 244304

  Growth form

  stem with branches occurring only in the distal stem (cat)

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Metallogorgia splendens

• 239144

  Growth form

  stem with branches occurring only in the distal stem (cat)

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Microprimnoa diabathra

• 255257

  Growth form

  branched planar (sparsely branched) (cat)

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Mirostenella articulata

• 250484

  Growth form

  branched planar (cat)

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• 247042

  Growth form

  branched planar (cat)

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• 250378

  Growth form

  branched planar (cat)

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Montastraea cavernosa

• 120741

  Growth form

  massive (cat)

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• 120744

  Growth form

  plate (cat)

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• 120743

  Growth form

  massive (cat)

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• 120742

  Growth form

  massive (cat)

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Muricea acervata

• 245880

  Growth form

  bushy (cat)

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Muricea albida

• 246087

  Growth form

  bushy (candelabrum-like) (cat)

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Muricea aspera

• 245998

  Growth form

  flabellate (cat)

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Muricea atlantica

• 282336

  Growth form

  branched planar (cat)

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• 238290

  Growth form

  branched planar (cat)

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• 238291

  Growth form

  branched multi-planar (cat)

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