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

Acanthoptilum agassizii

• 252665

  Growth form

  somewhat feather-shaped (cat)

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Acanthoptilum album

• 239784

  Growth form

  feather-like (cat)

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• 252666

  Growth form

  somewhat feather-shaped (cat)

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Acanthoptilum annulatum

• 239785

  Growth form

  feather-like (cat)

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• 252667

  Growth form

  somewhat feather-shaped (cat)

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Acanthoptilum gracile

• 252668

  Growth form

  somewhat feather-shaped (cat)

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• 239786

  Growth form

  feather-like (cat)

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Acanthoptilum longifolium

• 239787

  Growth form

  feather-like (cat)

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• 252669

  Growth form

  somewhat feather-shaped (cat)

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Acanthoptilum oligacis

• 239788

  Growth form

  feather-like (cat)

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• 252670

  Growth form

  somewhat feather-shaped (cat)

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Acanthoptilum pourtalesii

• 252671

  Growth form

  somewhat feather-shaped (cat)

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• 239789

  Growth form

  feather-like (cat)

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Acanthoptilum scalpellifolium

• 239790

  Growth form

  feather-like (cat)

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• 252672

  Growth form

  somewhat feather-shaped (cat)

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Acrophytum claviger

• 270779

  Growth form

  digitiform or clavate with stalk and polyparium (cat)

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Acrossota amboinensis

• 265915

  Growth form

  encrusting (ribbon-like stolons) (cat)

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• 295036

  Growth form

  encrusting (stoloniferous) (cat)

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• 245489

  Growth form

  encrusting (stoloniferous) (cat)

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Actinoptilum molle

• 251281

  Growth form

  unbranched erect (clavate) (cat)

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• 251572

  Growth form

  cylindrical (cat)

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Adelogorgia adusta

• 247749

  Growth form

  bushy (cat)

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Adelogorgia hannibalis

• 247736

  Growth form

  branched planar (sparsely branched) (cat)

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Adelogorgia osculabunda

• 247721

  Growth form

  flabellate (cat)

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Adelogorgia phyllosclera

• 258461

  Growth form

  branched planar (cat)

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