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

Orbicella annularis

• 120794

  Growth form

  massive (cat)

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• 120793

  Growth form

  plate (cat)

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• 120792

  Growth form

  plate (cat)

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• 120791

  Growth form

  plate (cat)

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• 120790

  Growth form

  plate (cat)

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• 120779

  Growth form

  massive (cat)

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• 120763

  Growth form

  massive (cat)

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• 120762

  Growth form

  columnar (cat)

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• 120761

  Growth form

  massive (cat)

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• 120760

  Growth form

  columnar (cat)

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• 120759

  Growth form

  massive (cat)

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• 120752

  Growth form

  massive (cat)

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• 120758

  Growth form

  massive (cat)

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• 120757

  Growth form

  massive (cat)

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• 120756

  Growth form

  massive (cat)

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• 120755

  Growth form

  massive (cat)

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Orlikia palmata

• 266216

  Growth form

  unbranched with hemispherical polyparium (cat)

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Orstomisis crosnieri

• 241410

  Growth form

  bushy (cat)

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Ovabunda ainex

• 248148

  Growth form

  arborescent (cat)

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Ovabunda arabica

• 248160

  Growth form

  arborescent (cat)

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Ovabunda benayahui

• 248172

  Growth form

  arborescent (cat)

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Ovabunda biseriata

• 244807

  Growth form

  branched stalk (cat)

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• 248185

  Growth form

  arborescent (cat)

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Ovabunda crenata

• 248197

  Growth form

  arborescent (cat)

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Ovabunda faraunensis

• 248209

  Growth form

  capitate (cat)

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