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

Paraplexaura pulchra

• 235350

  Growth form

  sparsely branched (cat)

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Paraplexaura reticuloides

• 235359

  Growth form

  sparsely branched (cat)

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Parasphaerasclera albiflora

• 234566

  Growth form

  digitate/digitiform/lobate (cat)

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Parasphaerasclera aurea

• 234573

  Growth form

  digitiform (cat)

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Parasphaerasclera grayi

• 234914

  Growth form

  digitiform (cat)

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Parasphaerasclera kimberleyensis

• 234921

  Growth form

  digitiform (cat)

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• 234568

  Growth form

  digitate/digitiform/lobate (cat)

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Parasphaerasclera morifera

• 234574

  Growth form

  digitiform (cat)

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• 234569

  Growth form

  digitiform (cat)

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Parasphaerasclera nezdoliyi

• 234583

  Growth form

  digitiform (cat)

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Parasphaerasclera rotifera

• 234570

  Growth form

  digitate (cat)

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• 295034

  Growth form

  stalk gives rise to branched lobes (cat)

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Parasphaerasclera valdiviae

• 295066

  Growth form

  stalk gives rise to branched lobes (cat)

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• 234571

  Growth form

  digitate (cat)

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Parasphaerasclera zanahoria

• 234572

  Growth form

  digitate/digitiform/lobate (cat)

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Parastenella atlantica

• 243807

  Growth form

  unbranched erect (whip-like) (cat)

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• 243791

  Growth form

  branched planar (cat)

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• 259921

  Growth form

  uniplanar (cat)

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Parastenella bayeri

• 259908

  Growth form

  uniplanar (cat)

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• 243792

  Growth form

  branched planar (cat)

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Parastenella doederleini

• 243793

  Growth form

  branched planar (cat)

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Parastenella gymnogaster

• 243794

  Growth form

  branched planar (cat)

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Parastenella pacifica

• 243795

  Growth form

  branched planar (cat)

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• 242346

  Growth form

  branched planar (cat)

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• 250429

  Growth form

  branched planar (cat)

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