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

Sarcophyton cornispiculatum

• 221933

  Growth form

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

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• 245543

  Growth form

  cup-shaped (cat)

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Sarcophyton crassocaule

• 221918

  Growth form

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

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• 253573

  Growth form

  capitate (stalk and disc-shaped polypary / mushroom like) (cat)

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Sarcophyton crassum

• 221924

  Growth form

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

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• 253562

  Growth form

  mushroom-shaped (cat)

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Sarcophyton ehrenbergi

• 221916

  Growth form

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

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• 249031

  Growth form

  capitate (cat)

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Sarcophyton elegans

• 253563

  Growth form

  mushroom-shaped (cat)

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• 221921

  Growth form

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

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• 295122

  Growth form

  mushroom-shaped (cat)

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Sarcophyton expandum

• 221934

  Growth form

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

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Sarcophyton furcatum

• 221935

  Growth form

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

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Sarcophyton glaucum

• 249022

  Growth form

  capitate (cat)

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• 253564

  Growth form

  mushroom-shaped (cat)

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• 221915

  Growth form

  capitate (mushroom disc-shaped or cup like) (cat)

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Sarcophyton griffini

• 221936

  Growth form

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

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Sarcophyton mililatensis

• 221937

  Growth form

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

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Sarcophyton minusculum

• 258979

  Growth form

  capitate (with folded polyparium) (cat)

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• 232774

  Growth form

  capitate (cup like) (cat)

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• 221938

  Growth form

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

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Sarcophyton nanwanensis

• 221939

  Growth form

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

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• 253565

  Growth form

  mushroom-shaped (cat)

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Sarcophyton nigrum

• 221940

  Growth form

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

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Sarcophyton portentosum

• 221941

  Growth form

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

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