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

Heteropolypus insolitus

• 209221

  Growth form

  capitate with spheroid capitulum (mushroom like) (cat)

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Heteropolypus japonicus

• 209222

  Growth form

  capitate with spheroid capitulum (mushroom like) (cat)

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Heteropolypus ritteri

• 209220

  Growth form

  capitate with spheroid capitulum (mushroom like) (cat)

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Heteropolypus rylovi

• 209223

  Growth form

  capitate with spheroid capitulum (mushroom like) (cat)

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Heteropolypus sol

• 209224

  Growth form

  capitate with spheroid capitulum (mushroom like) (cat)

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Heteropolypus steenstrupi

• 209225

  Growth form

  capitate with spheroid capitulum (mushroom like) (cat)

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Heteroxenia coheni

• 226654

  Growth form

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

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• 254490

  Growth form

  membranous base from which one or multiple stalks arise, with domed capitula (cat)

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Heteroxenia elisabethae

• 259791

  Growth form

  branched (cat)

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• 226650

  Growth form

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

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Heteroxenia fuscescens

• 226652

  Growth form

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

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• 249069

  Growth form

  capitate (branched) (cat)

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Heteroxenia ghardaqensis

• 226653

  Growth form

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

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Heteroxenia lighti

• 226655

  Growth form

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

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Heteroxenia medioensis

• 226656

  Growth form

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

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Heteroxenia mindorensis

• 226657

  Growth form

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

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Heteroxenia minuta

• 226658

  Growth form

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

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Heteroxenia palmae

• 226659

  Growth form

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

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Heteroxenia philippinensis

• 226660

  Growth form

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

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Heteroxenia pinnata

• 226651

  Growth form

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

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Heteroxenia rigida

• 226661

  Growth form

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

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Hicksonella expansa

• 229447

  Growth form

  flabellate with leaf-like expansions (cat)

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Hicksonella princeps

• 229448

  Growth form

  bushy (cat)

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• 281393

  Growth form

  bushy (cat)

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• 254272

  Growth form

  bushy (cat)

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