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

Sarcodictyon catenatum

• 213048

  Growth form

  creeper (stoloniferous) (cat)

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• 220445

  Growth form

  encrusting (stoloniferous) (cat)

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• 213013

  Growth form

  encrusting (stoloniferous) (cat)

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Sarcodictyon durum

• 265287

  Growth form

  encrusting (ribbon-like stolons) (cat)

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Sarcodictyon gotoi

• 265288

  Growth form

  encrusting (ribbon-like stolons) (cat)

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Sarcodictyon herdmani

• 265289

  Growth form

  encrusting (ribbon-like stolons) (cat)

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Sarcodictyon incrustans

• 265290

  Growth form

  encrusting (ribbon-like stolons) (cat)

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Sarcodictyon pacificum

• 265291

  Growth form

  encrusting (ribbon-like stolons) (cat)

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Sarcodictyon pallidum

• 265292

  Growth form

  encrusting (ribbon-like stolons) (cat)

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Sarcodictyon tropicale

• 265293

  Growth form

  encrusting (ribbon-like stolons) (cat)

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Sarcophyton aalbersbergi

• 221927

  Growth form

  capitate (cup like, with disc-shaped polyparium) (cat)

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Sarcophyton acutum

• 221925

  Growth form

  capitate (cup like, with disc-shaped polyparium) (cat)

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Sarcophyton aldersladei

• 221928

  Growth form

  capitate (cup like, with disc-shaped polyparium) (cat)

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Sarcophyton alexanderi

• 221929

  Growth form

  capitate (cup like, with disc-shaped polyparium) (cat)

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Sarcophyton auritum

• 249013

  Growth form

  capitate (cat)

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• 221920

  Growth form

  capitate (cup like, with disc-shaped polyparium) (cat)

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Sarcophyton birkelandi

• 221930

  Growth form

  capitate (cup like, with disc-shaped polyparium) (cat)

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Sarcophyton boletiforme

• 221931

  Growth form

  capitate (cup like, with disc-shaped polyparium) (cat)

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Sarcophyton buitendijki

• 253559

  Growth form

  mushroom-shaped (cat)

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• 221922

  Growth form

  capitate (cup like, with disc-shaped polyparium) (cat)

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Sarcophyton cherbonnieri

• 221932

  Growth form

  capitate (cup like, with disc-shaped polyparium) (cat)

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• 253561

  Growth form

  mushroom-shaped (cat)

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Sarcophyton cinereum

• 221923

  Growth form

  capitate (cup like, with disc-shaped polyparium) (cat)

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• 253560

  Growth form

  mushroom-shaped (cat)

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Sarcophyton cornispiculatum

• 259647

  Growth form

  mushroom-shaped (cat)

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