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

Swiftia comauensis

• 254841

  Growth form

  sparse planar branching (cat)

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Swiftia exserta

• 238932

  Growth form

  branched planar (sparsely branched) (cat)

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• 237480

  Growth form

  branched planar (cat)

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• 237479

  Growth form

  bushy (cat)

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• 208100

  Growth form

  branched planar (cat)

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• 208099

  Growth form

  bushy (cat)

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Swiftia pourtalesii

• 238912

  Growth form

  branched planar (cat)

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Swiftia pusilla

• 245927

  Growth form

  flabellate (cat)

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• 242236

  Growth form

  sparsely branched (cat)

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• 242235

  Growth form

  unbranched erect (cat)

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Swiftia sahlingi

• 245218

  Growth form

  branched (sparsely branched in different planes) (cat)

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Swiftia torreyi

• 242222

  Growth form

  branched planar (cat)

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Sympodium arbusculum

• 226895

  Growth form

  encrusting (cat)

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Sympodium caeruleum

• 226894

  Growth form

  encrusting (cat)

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Sympodium epiphytum

• 226896

  Growth form

  encrusting (cat)

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Sympodium gibbaeum

• 226897

  Growth form

  encrusting (cat)

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Sympodium hexagonotus

• 226898

  Growth form

  encrusting (cat)

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Sympodium subtilis

• 226899

  Growth form

  encrusting (cat)

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Sympodium tamatavense

• 226900

  Growth form

  encrusting (cat)

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Sympodium vegrandis

• 226901

  Growth form

  encrusting (cat)

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Sympodium yonaguniensis

• 226902

  Growth form

  encrusting (cat)

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Taiaroa tauhou

• 245662

  Growth form

  solitary polyps (cat)

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• 281005

  Growth form

  solitary/pseudosolitary (cat)

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Tauroprimnoa austasensis

• 245479

  Growth form

  bottlebrush (cat)

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• 250452

  Growth form

  bottlebrush (cat)

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