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

Virgularia presbytes

• 237936

  Growth form

  erect unbranched (cat)

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• 252814

  Growth form

  slender and vermiform with polyp leaves (cat)

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• 237936

  Growth form

  erect unbranched (cat)

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• 237936

  Growth form

  erect unbranched (cat)

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• 237936

  Growth form

  erect unbranched (cat)

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Virgularia reinwardtii

• 252815

  Growth form

  slender and vermiform with polyp leaves (cat)

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• 239666

  Growth form

  feather-like (cat)

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Virgularia rubra

• 239667

  Growth form

  feather-like (cat)

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• 252816

  Growth form

  slender and vermiform with polyp leaves (cat)

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Virgularia rumphii

• 239668

  Growth form

  feather-like (cat)

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• 252817

  Growth form

  slender and vermiform with polyp leaves (cat)

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Virgularia schultzei

• 239669

  Growth form

  feather-like (cat)

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• 252818

  Growth form

  slender and vermiform with polyp leaves (cat)

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Virgularia tuberculata

• 252819

  Growth form

  slender and vermiform with polyp leaves (cat)

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• 241068

  Growth form

  elongate with short polyp leaves (cat)

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• 239670

  Growth form

  feather-like (cat)

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Williamsium parviflorum

• 209483

  Growth form

  branched planar (cat)

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Xenia amparoi

• 226610

  Growth form

  cylindrical or clavate colonies, sometimes branched, with dome-shaped subunits (cat)

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Xenia ashworthi

• 226611

  Growth form

  cylindrical or clavate colonies, sometimes branched, with dome-shaped subunits (cat)

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Xenia bauiana

• 226612

  Growth form

  capitate (unbranched) (cat)

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Xenia blumi

• 226602

  Growth form

  capitate (unbranched) (cat)

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Xenia coerulea

• 226613

  Growth form

  cylindrical or clavate colonies, sometimes branched, with dome-shaped subunits (cat)

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Xenia crassa

• 226614

  Growth form

  capitate (unbranched) (cat)

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Xenia crispitentaculata

• 226615

  Growth form

  cylindrical or clavate colonies, sometimes branched, with dome-shaped subunits (cat)

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Xenia cylindrica

• 226616

  Growth form

  cylindrical or clavate colonies, sometimes branched, with dome-shaped subunits (cat)

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