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

Cavernularia subtilis

• 251546

  Growth form

  unbranched erect (cylindrical to clavate) (cat)

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Cavernularia vansyoci

• 251280

  Growth form

  unbranched erect (clavate) (cat)

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• 295144

  Growth form

  clavate (cat)

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• 251547

  Growth form

  unbranched erect (cylindrical to clavate) (cat)

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Cavernulina darwini

• 251548

  Growth form

  unbranched erect (cylindrical to clavate) (cat)

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Cavernulina grandiflora

• 251549

  Growth form

  unbranched erect (cylindrical to clavate) (cat)

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Cavernulina orientalis

• 251550

  Growth form

  unbranched erect (cylindrical to clavate) (cat)

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• 245348

  Growth form

  unbranched erect (clavate) (cat)

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Ceeceenus levis

• 232294

  Growth form

  tree-like (branched, retractile polyparium) (cat)

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Ceeceenus pannosus

• 232302

  Growth form

  tree-like (branched, retractile polyparium) (cat)

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Ceeceenus quadrus

• 232311

  Growth form

  tree-like (branched, retractile polyparium) (cat)

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Ceeceenus retractus

• 244984

  Growth form

  tree-like (branched, retractile polyparium) (cat)

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Ceeceenus torus

• 232320

  Growth form

  tree-like (branched, retractile polyparium) (cat)

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Cervera aggregata

• 266125

  Growth form

  encrusting (stoloniferous) (cat)

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• 208959

  Growth form

  encrusting (stoloniferous) (cat)

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Cervera atlantica

• 208960

  Growth form

  encrusting (stoloniferous) (cat)

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• 266126

  Growth form

  encrusting (stoloniferous) (cat)

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Cervera komaii

• 266123

  Growth form

  encrusting (stoloniferous) (cat)

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• 208958

  Growth form

  encrusting (stoloniferous) (cat)

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Cervera minuta

• 208961

  Growth form

  encrusting (stoloniferous) (cat)

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• 266127

  Growth form

  encrusting (stoloniferous) (cat)

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Chalcogorgia pellucida

• 248666

  Growth form

  unbranched erect (cat)

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Chathamisis ramosa

• 246436

  Growth form

  bushy (cat)

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Chelidonisis aurantiaca

• 259038

  Growth form

  bushy (cat)

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• 264479

  Growth form

  branched planar (cat)

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