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

Nidalia foliacea

• 266207

  Growth form

  unbranched with hemispherical polyparium (cat)

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• 210963

  Growth form

  torch-like (cat)

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Nidalia lampas

• 210964

  Growth form

  torch-like (cat)

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• 266208

  Growth form

  unbranched with hemispherical polyparium (cat)

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Nidalia macrospina

• 266209

  Growth form

  unbranched with hemispherical polyparium (cat)

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• 210965

  Growth form

  torch-like (cat)

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Nidalia occidentalis

• 237680

  Growth form

  erect unbranched (cat)

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• 237680

  Growth form

  erect unbranched (cat)

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• 281966

  Growth form

  torch-like (cat)

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• 237680

  Growth form

  erect unbranched (cat)

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• 244265

  Growth form

  capitate (domed) (cat)

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• 266197

  Growth form

  unbranched with hemispherical polyparium (cat)

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• 238078

  Growth form

  capitate (domed) (cat)

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• 237680

  Growth form

  erect unbranched (cat)

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• 210955

  Growth form

  torch-like (cat)

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Nidalia rubripunctata

• 210956

  Growth form

  torch-like (cat)

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• 266198

  Growth form

  unbranched with hemispherical polyparium (cat)

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• 247612

  Growth form

  capitate (domed) (cat)

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Nidalia simpsoni

• 266210

  Growth form

  unbranched with hemispherical polyparium (cat)

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• 210966

  Growth form

  torch-like (cat)

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Nidalia studeri

• 266211

  Growth form

  unbranched with hemispherical polyparium (cat)

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• 210967

  Growth form

  torch-like (cat)

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• 247029

  Growth form

  capitate (domed) (cat)

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Nidaliopsis alta

• 266212

  Growth form

  unbranched with hemispherical polyparium (cat)

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Nidaliopsis laeve

• 266213

  Growth form

  unbranched with hemispherical polyparium (cat)

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