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

Plumarella pourtalesii

• 238610

  Growth form

  branched planar (cat)

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Plumarella profunda

• 212647

  Growth form

  branched planar (cat)

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Plumarella recta

• 212618

  Growth form

  branched planar (cat)

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• 254037

  Growth form

  bottlebrush (cat)

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• 207141

  Growth form

  bottlebrush (cat)

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Plumarella rigida

• 212648

  Growth form

  branched planar (cat)

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Plumarella robusta

• 212649

  Growth form

  branched planar (cat)

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Plumarella spicata

• 212650

  Growth form

  branched planar (cat)

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Plumarella spinosa

• 212651

  Growth form

  branched planar (cat)

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Plumarella superba

• 212616

  Growth form

  branched planar (cat)

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• 207131

  Growth form

  branched planar (cat)

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• 254061

  Growth form

  branched planar (cat)

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Plumigorgia schuboti

• 281843

  Growth form

  bushy (cat)

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Porcupinella profunda

• 245629

  Growth form

  unbranched erect (clavate or pen-like) (cat)

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• 247980

  Growth form

  unbranched erect (with terminal polyps) (cat)

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Porcupinella tasmanica

• 247970

  Growth form

  unbranched erect (with terminal polyps) (cat)

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Porites astreoides

• 120800

  Growth form

  massive (cat)

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• 120801

  Growth form

  massive (cat)

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• 120799

  Growth form

  massive (cat)

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Porphyrophyton distinctum

• 236268

  Growth form

  capitate (lobate) (cat)

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• 248042

  Growth form

  lobate (cat)

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• 234575

  Growth form

  lobate (cat)

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Primnoa bisquama

• 254590

  Growth form

  branched planar (cat)

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Primnoa notialis

• 247838

  Growth form

  branched planar (cat)

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• 250433

  Growth form

  bushy (cat)

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