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

Clavularia thalassanthos

• 208213

  Growth form

  encrusting (stoloniferous) (cat)

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Clavularia thompsoni

• 208214

  Growth form

  encrusting (stoloniferous) (cat)

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Clavularia venustella

• 208215

  Growth form

  encrusting (stoloniferous) (cat)

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Clavularia viridis

• 208216

  Growth form

  encrusting (stoloniferous) (cat)

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Coelogorgia palmosa

• 273938

  Growth form

  bushy (stoloniferous) (cat)

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• 209136

  Growth form

  bushy (stoloniferous) (cat)

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Colpophyllia natans

• 120737

  Growth form

  massive (cat)

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Complexum gruveli

• 231138

  Growth form

  lobate (cat)

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Complexum monodi

• 231147

  Growth form

  lobate (cat)

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Complexum pusillum

• 235393

  Growth form

  encrusting with lobes (cat)

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Conglomeratusclera coerulea

• 236401

  Growth form

  capitate (branched) (cat)

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Conglomeratusclera robusta

• 236416

  Growth form

  capitate (branched) (cat)

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Convexella jungerseni

• 243779

  Growth form

  unbranched erect (whip-like) (cat)

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Convexella magelhaenica

• 250449

  Growth form

  unbranched erect (cat)

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Corallium japonicum

• 245784

  Growth form

  branched planar (cat)

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• 247599

  Growth form

  branched planar (cat)

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• 248387

  Growth form

  branched planar (cat)

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• 207439

  Growth form

  arborescent (cat)

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Corallium medea

• 248394

  Growth form

  branched planar (cat)

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Corallium nix

• 245777

  Growth form

  branched planar (cat)

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• 248389

  Growth form

  branched planar (cat)

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Corallium rubrum

• 259445

  Growth form

  branched planar (cat)

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• 259446

  Growth form

  bushy (cat)

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• 212827

  Growth form

  tree-like (cat)

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Corallium salomonense

• 298727

  Growth form

  branched planar (cat)

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