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

Telestula mosaica

• 265297

  Growth form

  encrusting (ribbon-like stolons) (cat)

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Telestula septentrionalis

• 265298

  Growth form

  encrusting (ribbon-like stolons) (cat)

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• 253505

  Growth form

  ribbon-like stolons (cat)

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Telestula spiculicola

• 265299

  Growth form

  encrusting (ribbon-like stolons) (cat)

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Telestula stocki

• 253512

  Growth form

  ribbon-like stolons (cat)

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• 265300

  Growth form

  encrusting (ribbon-like stolons) (cat)

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Telestula tubaria

• 265301

  Growth form

  encrusting (ribbon-like stolons) (cat)

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• 253520

  Growth form

  ribbon-like stolons (cat)

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Telestula verseveldti

• 253532

  Growth form

  ribbon-like stolons (cat)

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• 265302

  Growth form

  encrusting (ribbon-like stolons) (cat)

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Telestula versluysi

• 265303

  Growth form

  encrusting (ribbon-like stolons) (cat)

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Tenerodus fallax

• 236275

  Growth form

  encrusting (lobate) (cat)

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• 236276

  Growth form

  lobate (cat)

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Tenerodus pollex

• 236283

  Growth form

  digitate lobes (cat)

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Tenerodus verseveldti

• 247194

  Growth form

  encrusting (stoloniferous) (cat)

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• 236291

  Growth form

  clusters of polyps arising from a membrane (cat)

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Tenuisis microspiculata

• 246470

  Growth form

  slender sparsely branched (cat)

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Thelogorgia longiflora

• 246209

  Growth form

  branched planar (cat)

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Thelogorgia stellata

• 246184

  Growth form

  branched planar (cat)

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Thelogorgia studeri

• 246196

  Growth form

  branched planar (cat)

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• 244237

  Growth form

  sparsely branched (cat)

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Thelogorgia vossi

• 246222

  Growth form

  branched planar (cat)

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Thesea citrina

• 237495

  Growth form

  branched planar (cat)

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Thesea dalioi

• 246851

  Growth form

  bushy (cat)

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Thesea gracilis

• 238358

  Growth form

  sparsely branched (cat)

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