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

Ellisella atlantica

• 238993

  Growth form

  unbranched erect (whip-like) (cat)

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Ellisella azilia

• 281753

  Growth form

  bushy (cat)

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Ellisella ceratophyta

• 281717

  Growth form

  bushy (cat)

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Ellisella cercidia

• 281735

  Growth form

  bushy (cat)

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• 281734

  Growth form

  fan-like (cat)

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Ellisella elongata

• 282709

  Growth form

  unbranched whip-like (cat)

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• 208103

  Growth form

  unbranched whip-like (cat)

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• 208106

  Growth form

  branched whip-like (cat)

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• 282702

  Growth form

  erect with slender whip-like branches (cat)

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• 237370

  Growth form

  sparsely branched (cat)

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• 237369

  Growth form

  unbranched (whip-like) (cat)

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• 257252

  Growth form

  bushy (whip-like) (cat)

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Ellisella eustala

• 281760

  Growth form

  candelabrum-like (cat)

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Ellisella funiculina

• 239004

  Growth form

  unbranched erect (whip-like) (cat)

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Ellisella grandiflora

• 239015

  Growth form

  unbranched erect (whip-like) (cat)

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Ellisella grandis

• 239025

  Growth form

  bushy (cat)

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Ellisella laevis

• 250081

  Growth form

  branched planar (cat)

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Ellisella maculata

• 254303

  Growth form

  filiform (cat)

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Ellisella nivea

• 245640

  Growth form

  flabellate (cat)

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Ellisella nuctenea

• 281743

  Growth form

  fan-like (cat)

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• 281746

  Growth form

  fan-shaped multi-planar (cat)

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• 281744

  Growth form

  bushy (cat)

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Ellisella plexauroides

• 281725

  Growth form

  bushy (cat)

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Ellisella rosea

• 245651

  Growth form

  flabellate (cat)

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Ellisella rossafila

• 281709

  Growth form

  sparsely branched (cat)

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