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

Radicipes kopelatos

• 248491

  Growth form

  unbranched erect (whip-like spiral) (cat)

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Radicipes pleurocristatus

• 239118

  Growth form

  unbranched erect (cat)

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• 248455

  Growth form

  unbranched erect (whip-like spiral) (cat)

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Radicipes sakhalinensis

• 239119

  Growth form

  unbranched erect (cat)

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• 256466

  Growth form

  unbranched whip-like (cat)

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Radicipes spiralis

• 248476

  Growth form

  unbranched erect (whip-like spiral) (cat)

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• 239120

  Growth form

  unbranched erect (cat)

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Radicipes stonei

• 248465

  Growth form

  unbranched erect (whip-like spiral) (cat)

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• 239121

  Growth form

  unbranched erect (cat)

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Ramuligorgia militaris

• 248633

  Growth form

  branched planar (cat)

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Renilla amethystina

• 239372

  Growth form

  capitate (disc-shaped) (cat)

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Renilla edwardsii

• 239373

  Growth form

  capitate (disc-shaped) (cat)

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Renilla koellikeri

• 239369

  Growth form

  capitate (disc-shaped) (cat)

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Renilla muelleri

• 239371

  Growth form

  capitate (disc-shaped) (cat)

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• 282784

  Growth form

  colonies with a slender stalk and a reniform frond (cat)

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Renilla octodentata

• 239374

  Growth form

  capitate (disc-shaped) (cat)

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Renilla reniformis

• 237892

  Growth form

  erect unbranched (cat)

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• 237892

  Growth form

  erect unbranched (cat)

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• 282771

  Growth form

  colonies with a slender stalk, lacking an axial rod and a broad, flat frond bearing dimorphic polyps on the upper surface only. (cat)

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• 237892

  Growth form

  erect unbranched (cat)

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• 237892

  Growth form

  erect unbranched (cat)

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• 239370

  Growth form

  capitate (disc-shaped) (cat)

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Rhizalcyon rhodora

• 247602

  Growth form

  club shape (cat)

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• 247601

  Growth form

  capitate (domed) (cat)

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Rhodaniridogorgia fragilis

• 253633

  Growth form

  axis monopodial, spiraling upward, with undivided branches emanating from one side of axis (cat)

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